On: Killing a process and all of its descendants

[pixelbeat__]

The GNU coreutils timeout command encapsulates a lot of these issues. It's surprisingly difficult to handle all the edge cases and races.

https://www.maizure.org/projects/decoded-gnu-coreutils/timeo...

[meonkeys → pixelbeat__]

Thank you, timeout is new to me and helpful. And MaiZure! Ye gods. That website is an absolute gold mine for improving techniques around reading and understanding source code.

[castratikron → pixelbeat__]

Cool. Anyone know how they make diagrams like those?

[kevinoid → castratikron]

I was curious as well. According to the author, "All the diagrams were hand-crafted in PowerPoint."

https://github.com/MaiZure/coreutils-8.3/issues/1#issuecomme...

[atombender → castratikron]

You can do those flow diagrams easily with Mermaid.