what is the difference between KILL and KILL -9?
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Answer / daniel
The simple kill command will give the signal SIGTERM, while kill -9 will give the signal SIGKILL.
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Answer / birendra
Kill command will kill the proecess without specifying the
force whereas when we need to apply the force or priority
to kill any process we use kill -9.
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Answer / ravi k srivastava
Kill allows the child processes to be killed before parent
process is killed.
Kill -9 forcefully kills the process without giving time to
child processes to be killed. In IPC architecture, its not
good idea to kill forcefully using "-9" option.
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Answer / viraj
The simple kill command will give the signal SIGTERM, while
kill -9 will give the signal SIGKILL.
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Answer / kiruthiga.s
KILL --> its a graceful terminating of proocess
kill-9--> terminates the process force fully
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