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Old 11-02-2004, 03:18 PM   #1
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Why Does the Program Die When I xkill It But Not When I kill -9 It?


I'm sure you've all encountered this. You have some GUI-based application that you want to kill and when you try to kill it using "kill -9 pid", the application does not shut down or die. In fact, sometimes it doesn't even die if you try it a few times. At the same time, if you use xkill, the application dies immediately. Why does this happen? What low-level system call does xkill make and can it be invoked from the terminal without selecting the process using the cross-hairs? Thanks for your time.
 
Old 11-03-2004, 07:04 AM   #2
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Many times xkill doesn kill the application at all, just kill the GUI. When you xkill something make 'ps -d' and somethines you can see the procces runing.
 
Old 11-03-2004, 07:09 AM   #3
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xkill I believe will kill all processes associated with that running process... when your doing an kill -9, your probably not killing all the processes. xkill is dangerous as so is kill -9... You should really use pstree to find the parent process and send a HUP to it to kill it nicely, then if all else fails, use a kill -9.
 
Old 01-03-2005, 03:30 AM   #4
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Thanks trickykid. I've read that some processes can't be killed because their parent's have exited without waiting (zombies) while others can't because the kernel is doing something on their behalf. Is there any wait to overcome these? Thanks for your time.
 
  


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