On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 12:40 -0600, Jeff Schroeder wrote: > Steve asked: > > > But what if I need it to die RIGHT now. Is there a bash command I > > can use to kill the process immediately without "asking it's > > permission" as seems to be the case with my current method? > > Use the "-9" flag to the kill/killall command, which will signal an > immediate termination. > > # killall -9 mygame
This should be your last resort. Normally I send a SEGV (signal 11) first and see if the process will die gracefully. That gives the process a chance to clean up sockets, files, etc. SIGKILL doesn't allow it to do anything further. Even in the case were a process is locked waiting on I/O, as soon as it comes back, it's toast. Corey
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