Document the killall(1) regression.

While I'm there also correct a typo.

Reviewed by:	gjb (earlier version), hrs
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delphij 2014-01-17 21:37:55 +00:00
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operating system on <application>VirtualBox</application>
can have a problem with disk I/O access. It depends on some
specific hardware configuration and does not depend on a
specific version of <application>VitrualBox</application> or
specific version of <application>VirtualBox</application> or
host operating system.</para>
<para>It causes various errors and makes &os; quite unstable.
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for the supported releases to fix it will be
released.</para>
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<listitem>
<para>A bug in &man.killall.1; has been discovered. It
makes <userinput>killall -INT</userinput> to deliver
<literal>SIGTERM</literal> rather than the desired
<literal>SIGINT</literal>, and may cause blocking
behavior for scripts that uses it, as <literal>-I</literal>
means <quote>interactive</quote>. A workaround of this
would be to use <literal>-SIGINT</literal> instead.
This bug has been fixed on &os;-CURRENT and will be fixed
in &os;-STABLE.</para>
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