[lstyls]

Wut?

When logging out via the OS supplied method this is handled for the user. Why on earth would a user have to call kill -1 on logout?

My comment was from the perspective of an application developer.

[ars]

`kill(-1, ...)` is a syscall, it's not an application command.

> this is handled for the user.

And that's how - they call that syscall.

Maybe you didn't realize. Notice the parenthesis? It's a function call in a programming language. The command line program is just a passthrough to the syscall.

And when rebooting you do need the command line program, so preventing it from passing -1 through doesn't make sense either.