[X4U] Re: Tiger-unquittable/killable apps?- "Kill -9"

[Michael Elliott]

You know, I keep seeing "kill -9" mentioned.  I know how to use  
Terminal to kill a process like "Kill 257", but is "kill -9"  
something specific?  I looked under man kill, and see that -9 is   
"KILL (non-catchable, non-ignorable)".  So when I kill a PID by  
typing "kill 257", is that "using kill -9"?

Thanks from the UNIX newbie.

Michael


On May 19, 2005, at 1:18 PM, Timothy Luoma wrote:

>
> I've seen this as well, and kill -9 in Terminal wouldn't even kill it.
>
> Seen it more in Tiger than even did in Panther, IIRC.
>
> TjL
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