Re: Dead jobs

Paul Tomblin (ptomblin@xcski.com)
Mon, 1 Mar 1999 13:06:35 -0500

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Quoting Jacek Perry (chrobry@yahoo.com):
> Anyway I have a quick question. For some reason I can't allways kill
> jobs. Especially if they are running in Xwindows. For instance when

As a last resort, "kill -9 pid". But only after you've tried other means of
killing a program, because "kill -9" is a hard kill, and doesn't give a
program a chance to catch the signal and clean up before dying.

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