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kill, and I swear to god if you're still there when Ips, I'm getting out the-9Yeah, by default
killsends sigterm, and not kill the process at all.It's the correct behavior, sending sigkill by default would be harmful. Now take a look at how
killallworked in Solaris (before it adopted GNU).https://youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4
Okay that took me by surprise
I'll be sharing this
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