Re^2: start and kill a process in a local shell

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Signal KILL (9) is last resort and should be used as such. A process killed that way has no chance to clean up resources (e.g. flush buffers, close filehandles).

Signals 1, 2, 3 or 15 should be used, an 9 only when the process is still running after those.

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Re^3: start and kill a process in a local shell by apl (Monsignor) on Oct 12, 2007 at 12:04 UTC
You are correct. But when I saw a program (...) that does not exit itself, I made the unwarranted assumption that the original writer of the program didn't seem particularly interested in cleaning up.	[reply]

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