Re: Re: kill_delay

On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:50:42AM +0100, Roy Dragseth alleged:
> After some tinkering with the code I've come to the conclusion that the kill 
> loop makes a lot of sense for parallel jobs, as you want to give an mpi 
> launcher the time to clean up before it is killed with an untrappable signal. 
>  

But why loop over SIGKILL?  It is untrappable and will eventually be
delivered even if the process is stuck in IO wait.