in reply to Process termination

Please please. Not "kill 9"! That gives a process no chance to clean up. Send it a 15, wait 5 seconds, and if it still doesn't die, try a 2, then wait another 5 seconds. If that doesn't work, "9" is then OK.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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