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Re: Question about kill


On 5/4/2012 2:11 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 05/04/2012 05:51 AM, marco atzeri wrote:


Usually kill -9 your_program_name

works very well

Usually 'kill -9 your_program' is overkill; it forcefully terminates the program with SIGKILL, which means the program has no chance to clean up after itself, and can leave your file system in a mess for the next time you attempt to run the program. You should reserve this for a last-ditch effort, only after the nicer 'kill your_program' (SIGTERM) or 'kill -s INT' (SIGINT) both result in no action.


I had the impression he needs the last resort...


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