in reply to Re^3: pp --clean does not seem to work (it does)
in thread pp --clean does not seem to work

How are you killing the process?

On unix systems, kill -9 (i.e. sending SIGKILL) can not be caught, the process is terminated without a chance to save any data or to clean up. See also signal(7) and POSIX.

Alexander

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