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

[Lyta Alexander]

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Amanda Knox wrote:

> Just This Girl wrote:
> 
> > Did you try 'kill pid' or 'kill -9 pid'? 'kill -9' should bring down
> > anything.
> 
> Simple question (I hope):
> 
> Why is it '-9' exactly? Are there different kill levels or something? What if
> I typed 'Kill -1'? Just curious, and I doubt I would have the know-how to
> find that exact answer in the man pages ;)
teep:~$ kill -l
 1) SIGHUP       2) SIGINT       3) SIGQUIT      4) SIGILL
 5) SIGTRAP      6) SIGIOT       7) SIGBUS       8) SIGFPE
 9) SIGKILL     10) SIGUSR1     11) SIGSEGV     12) SIGUSR2
13) SIGPIPE     14) SIGALRM     15) SIGTERM     17) SIGCHLD
18) SIGCONT     19) SIGSTOP     20) SIGTSTP     21) SIGTTIN
22) SIGTTOU     23) SIGURG      24) SIGXCPU     25) SIGXFSZ
26) SIGVTALRM   27) SIGPROF     28) SIGWINCH    29) SIGIO
30) SIGPWR

> 
> Take care,
> Amanda (who should probably start calling herself Amanda K. now, since
> there's another Amanda on the list *smile*)


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