On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Ghiora Drori wrote: > I probably could use SIGTERM but I like using an axe...
that's all nice and well, if you're an axe murderer. for killing programs, it's *really* prefered to first try to gently smother them with a pillow (kill) and only then resort to somewhat more violent means (kill -9). why? because pretty much any non trivial, well coded program needs to perform cleanup on shutdown. kill -9 will won't let that happen, possibly causing problems the next time the program comes up or even before (think system wide resources which are not cleaned up on process termination, which the poor program might leave behind because you splattered its brains all over the wall with a well timed axe stroke, err, kill -9). -- mulix http://www.pointer.co.il/~mulix/ http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
