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

[Cathy James]

>> I'm afraid I don't really know the answer to that one. I've never had a
>> kill -9 *not* work on a pid. 

>I have.  You know how if you do a ps -ax you can see what state each
>process is in?  Normally, they are in N state, sometimes R state.  I'm not
>exactly sure what the letters stand for, but I think it is Normal and
>Reset.

	S is sleeping (waiting for an event), R is running, Z is zombie,
T is stopped.

	--Cathy James

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