Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Small question

 



Good morning
Thank You for email and help.
Di Nov 12 09:20:14 2013
> >> > kill
> >> > and
> >> > terminate?

> Terminate sends the program a signal asking the program to end. The
> program can then 'clean up' by closing files and the like before ending
>
> Kill does not do this, it stops the computers operating system
> allocating cpu time to the program, clears the memory and closes any
> open files without writing any data to them.
> (ON Linux the kill command does both things normally it tries to
> terminate (kill pid) by sending a signal. However kill -9 (kill
> --sigkill is a 'kill'
>
> see man kill and man 7 signal for more details

Thank You
Regards
Sophie

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