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[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 22 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

kill, and I swear to god if you're still there when I ps, I'm getting out the -9

[–] 69420@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago
alias murder="kill -9"
[–] marcos@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago

Yeah, by default kill sends 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 killall worked in Solaris (before it adopted GNU).

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)
[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Okay that took me by surprise

I'll be sharing this

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago