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alayne on Dec 23, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Understanding how killall works using strace

Step 1: find the correct source code.

Reading code has its place and tracing code has its place. I have difficulty understanding nontrivial codebases without some amount of tracing. In this case you chose to present the source for a FreeBSD/OS X version of killall when OP is running Linux.

nly on Dec 23, 2013 | [–]

On my Linux system it's provided by psmisc:

http://sourceforge.net/p/psmisc/code/ci/master/tree/src/kill...

belluchan on Dec 23, 2013 | [–]

Finding the right source for killall for whatever platform you want is trivial.

FeeTinesAMady on Dec 23, 2013 | [–]

You didn't.

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