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

[van little]

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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