Re: [issue1716] can't stop "bmake" (without args) in /usr/pkgsrc

On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 09:26:48 +0200
Antonio Huete Jimenez <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Well, yes. A lot of bmake process will be spawned and you will have a
> bad time to stop them all. What I use to do the to run a ton of
> 'killall -9 bmake' very fast until there are no processes left. Of
> course this is just a rude workaround, but it gives you the chance to
> avoid the reboot :P

	while killall -9 bmake; do cat /dev/null; done

	Should do the job and drop out when they're all gone.

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