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[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months 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 3 months ago
alias murder="kill -9"
[-] marcos@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months 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).

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