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serve_yay
on Aug 21, 2014
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fork() can fail
Out of "-1 as failure return value", and "-1 to signal all possible processes", at least one is a bad idea.
leni536
on Aug 21, 2014
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It's the second one. kill() shouldn't have the kill(-1,...) functionality, there should be a separate syscall for this.
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