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Sometimes it makes sense to hard kill a client if we die. Let's hence add a third FORK_DEATHSIG flag for this purpose: FORK_DEATHSIG_SIGKILL. To make things less confusing this also renames FORK_DEATHSIG to FORK_DEATHSIG_SIGTERM to make clear it sends SIGTERM. We already had FORK_DEATHSIG_SIGINT, hence this makes things nicely symmetric. A bunch of users are switched over for FORK_DEATHSIG_SIGKILL where we know it's safe to abort things abruptly. This should make some kernel cases more robust, since we cannot get confused by signal masks or such. While we are at it, also fix a bunch of bugs where we didn't take FORK_DEATHSIG_SIGINT into account in safe_fork()
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