still can't get over the fact that most of the possible uses of unix "kill" do not actually kill anything at all
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Why can't you kill a thread? Isn't it simply telling the OS to stop switching to it? It might leak, sure, but thread will be dead.
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Because no such operation is defined, for very good reason. It will leave program in an inconsistent and deadlocking state.
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In fairness, the main *reasonable* use of kill(1) or kill(2) is to kill the process (either gracefully or forcefully).
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and then there's the stupid shit like SIGUSR1
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Alas signal(2) was a thing, would have been such a better name for kill(2)
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