[techtalk] Is there a Kill -8, too?

[Laurel Fan]

Excerpts from linuxchix: 13-Oct-99 Re: [techtalk] Is there a K.. by Jane
Susi at mail.ee 
> I'm sorry, if I bother you with a really silly question, 
> but...what shall I do, if this "kill -9" just does'nt work? 
> Not very long time ago it just happened, so what to do for
> avoiding such situation??

That's not supposed to happen.  If you have permission to kill the
process (ie. you are root or the user that owns the process) and kill -9
doesn't work, it's probably a bug and there's probably nothing you can
do about it.  If your shell has builtin kill, you can try the real kill
(probably /usr/bin/kill).


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