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@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@
!!!Signal: KILL
-This signal causes your program
to terminate. This signal
cannot be caught or ignored.
This is always signal #9. To terminate a process IMMEDIATELY, send it a signal 9. Note the process will not have a chance to clean up
.
+This signal causes a process
to terminate immediately
. It
cannot be caught or ignored. This is always signal #9 on all systems
.
-!!kill -9 is a BAD Idea
-
-command ''kill -9 (or -KILL)'' should only be used as a very last resort!
-
-The KILL signal does not allow a
process to run
any cleanup code, which means using ''kill -9''
may leave child processes of a parent orphaned
, temporary files open
, shared memory segments active
, and sockets
busy. This leaves the system in a messy state
, and could
lead to unanticipated
and hard to debug problems.
+__Do not use this signal lightly.__
The process will not have
any chance to clean up. It
may leave behind orphaned
child processes, temporary files, allocated locks, active
shared memory segments, busy sockets
, and any number of other resource state inconsistencies. This can
lead to surprising
and hard to debug problems in the subsequent operation of the system
.
!Note:
-* ZombieProcess''''
es in the "Z" state cannot be killed,
they are dead already and are waiting on
their parents to reap them
+* ZombieProcess~
es in the "Z" state cannot be killed:
they are dead already,
and are merely
waiting for
their parents to collect their exit code.
* Processes that are blocked in the "D" state will not die until they recover from their D status.
