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[–] 22 points 9 months ago (5 children)

kill, and I swear to god if you're still there when I ps, I'm getting out the -9

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, by default kill sends sigterm, and not kill the process at all.

    It's the correct behavior, sending sigkill by default would be harmful. Now take a look at how killall worked in Solaris (before it adopted GNU).

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