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[-] marcos@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks 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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