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[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

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

[-] 69420@lemmy.world 17 points 4 weeks ago

alias murder="kill -9"

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month 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).

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

Okay that took me by surprise

I'll be sharing this

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

Please do!

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