Killing all processes of current user

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Published on 2010-06-15T01:31:07Z Indexed on 2010/06/15 1:33 UTC
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user@host$ killall -9 -u user

Will it definitely kill all processes owned by user (including forkbombs)?

No new processes is spawned to user from other users.
No user's processes are in D-sleep and unkillable.
No processes are trying to detect and ptrace or terminate this started killall.

E.g. if killall will finish untampered and successfully is it 100% that no processes are left with this uid?

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