cannot kill a process

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:11:57PM +0100, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Shane McKinley wrote:
> > I always use kill -9 XXXX, don't know if there is a difference.
> >
> > -9 is undocumented, but seems to work for me every time.
> 
> Not undocumented but you have to know where to look: "man 7 signal" will 
> tell you that -9 is the same as -KILL.

'man kill' documents it too.

FWIW I always try kill XXX before resorting to kill -9 XXX.  The first
method gives the program a chance to clean up.

Marius Gedminas
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