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^C vs SIGKILL

Posted Apr 21, 2008 11:52 UTC (Mon) by willy (subscriber, #9762)
In reply to: ^C vs SIGKILL by tialaramex
Parent article: Stable kernel 2.6.25 released

I think you only find it acceptable because it's such a huge improvement over what went before
;-)

This idea, as far as I'm aware, is the product of Linus' Big Brain back in 2002.  The strange
thing is that nobody bothered to do it before now.

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