[techtalk] Is there a Kill -8, too?
van little
vlittle at pathcom.com
Wed Oct 13 15:24:27 EST 1999
Cathy James wrote:
>
> >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, for reasons I still don't understand. In that instance,
> killing the parent process worked.
>
yeah, if you kill the parent process, the process that had its parent
die is 'adopted' by the init process, which helps it die nicely.
van
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