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

Kelly Lynn Martin kelly at poverty.bloomington.in.us
Thu Oct 14 07:44:52 EST 1999


On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 12:13:07 -0700, "Tamara Thompson" <thompson at gate.sunquest.com> said:

>I've also occassionally had k -9 pid# not kill the process, I think I
>looked around and made sure I killed the parent process first, then
>tried it again.  Not an expert on this.  But since the process
>numbers are sequential, it's not so hard to find out the order in
>which the procs started.

ps will list the parent process ID (as PPID) with the right
combination of options.  I think it's -l, but don't quote me on that.

Kelly

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