[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, for reasons I still don't understand.  In that instance,
killing the parent process worked.

	If you look at the process list returned by ps, you'll see a column
labelled "PPID".  That stands for "parent process ID".  The parent process
is the one that spawned the current process.

	--Cathy James

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