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A Decade of Kill Bugs

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-11-02 Cached

A blog post recounting how a bug in the 50-year-old kill(1) utility (shipped via procps in Ubuntu 14/16/18/22/24 LTS) caused an Endcrawl outage by killing all processes on the machine instead of just a target process group, tracing a decade-long series of such bugs and offering recommendations.

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