A funny thing happened to me at the help desk today,...

[Ian Dennison_1]

someone asked me what the difference was between a "kill -9" and a "kill -15".

I said "six".

Share and Enjoy! Ian

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi Ian:

> I said "six".

I agree --- you wish you would have had the chance to "deep-six" the shared memory segments and the temporary files your process left around :-)

Regards!

...JRF...

[Jan van den Ende]

Ian,

In my view the correct answer would be:
"Anyone who needs to ask, should have access to neither."

But hay, now in the real world...


Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Court Campbell]

zombies, and orphans, and mem leaks, OH MY!

[Fabio Ettore]

The difference?

kill -15 ---> "Killing me softly"
kill -9 ---> "Killing me hardly"

:-)

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Good one.

The process is just as dead unless its a zombie.

SEP

[Andres_13]

That was accurate.

Regards!

[Dennis Handly]

>Court: zombies

Zombies aren't created by kill -TERM or -KILL.
And you can try to kill the zombie master.

[Deepak Kr]

Haha :-)

kill -9 shoot at sight
kill -15 hang till death!!


regds.
Deepak

[Venkatesh BL]

there is a manpage for 'kill'

signum signame Name Description
___________________________________________________________________________
0 SIGNULL Null Check access to pid
1 SIGHUP Hangup Terminate; can be trapped
2 SIGINT Interrupt Terminate; can be trapped
3 SIGQUIT Quit Terminate with core dump; can be trapped
9 SIGKILL Kill Forced termination; cannot be trapped
15 SIGTERM Terminate Terminate; can be trapped
24 SIGSTOP Stop Pause the process; cannot be trapped
25 SIGTSTP Terminal stop Pause the process; can be trapped
26 SIGCONT Continue Run a stopped process