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01-11-2009, 08:28 AM	#1
sang_froid Member Registered: Oct 2006 Posts: 179 Rep:	kill -9 and kill -TERM Hi, what is the main difference between "kill -9 and kill -TERM" ?

01-11-2009, 09:26 AM	#2
AlucardZero Senior Member Registered: May 2006 Location: USA Distribution: Debian Posts: 4,824 Rep:	Code: man kill TERM (signal 15) may be ignored by the process, while KILL (9) may not.

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