os: relax the way we kill processes on Plan 9

Previously, we wrote "kill" to the process control file
to kill a program. This is problematic because it doesn't
let the program gracefully exit.

This matters especially if the process we're killing is a
Go program. On Unix, sending SIGKILL to a Go program will
automatically kill all runtime threads. On Plan 9, there
are no threads so when the program wants to exit it has to
somehow signal all of the runtime processes. It can't do
this if we mercilessly kill it by writing to it's control
file.

Instead, we now send it a note to invoke it's note handler
and let it perform any cleanup before exiting.

LGTM=rsc
R=rsc, 0intro
CC=golang-codereviews
https://golang.org/cl/74440044

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/src/pkg/os/exec_plan9.go b/src/pkg/os/exec_plan9.go
index 2bd5b6888d..676be36ac7 100644
--- a/src/pkg/os/exec_plan9.go
+++ b/src/pkg/os/exec_plan9.go
@@ -52,10 +52,6 @@ func (p *Process) signal(sig Signal) error {
 	if p.done() {
 		return errors.New("os: process already finished")
 	}
-	if sig == Kill {
-		// Special-case the kill signal since it doesn't use /proc/$pid/note.
-		return p.Kill()
-	}
 	if e := p.writeProcFile("note", sig.String()); e != nil {
 		return NewSyscallError("signal", e)
 	}
@@ -63,10 +59,7 @@ func (p *Process) signal(sig Signal) error {
 }
 
 func (p *Process) kill() error {
-	if e := p.writeProcFile("ctl", "kill"); e != nil {
-		return NewSyscallError("kill", e)
-	}
-	return nil
+	return p.signal(Kill)
 }
 
 func (p *Process) wait() (ps *ProcessState, err error) {