Thursday, January 3, 2008

Kill -9 PID .What is 9 ?

We used to use the commad

>>kill -9 pid ..

From where -9 coming. Please check the result of the command

>>kill -l.

Wowww....It lists all signals with a corresponding digit. Please check what is meant for 9. 9 corresponds to SIGKILL .

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