On 01/30/2009 11:58 PM, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 02:51:35PM -0600, Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> was heard to say:Thanks for the insight! I'll remember to use TERM when I have to kill so errant process. It might save me a headache in the future!The difference between TERM and KILL, btw, is that TERM asks the program to shut down, whereas KILL just stops it instantly. So programs killed with TERM can run cleanup actions before they shut down,
I 'kill -15' iceweasel whenever I need to log out but want to retain all my windows and tabs.
but programs killed with KILL don't get a chance. (this also
means that programs can ignore TERM, for instance because they've
crashed really badly -- KILL is really meant for situations where that
has happened)
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