X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4FA3C88B.50103@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 14:16:11 +0200 From: marco atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Question about kill References: <4FA3CA9D.3040408@cfl.rr.com> <4FA3C2C5.7020306@gmail.com> <4FA3C77B.2040901@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4FA3C77B.2040901@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 5/4/2012 2:11 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > On 05/04/2012 05:51 AM, marco atzeri wrote: > >> >> Usually >> kill -9 your_program_name >> >> works very well > > Usually 'kill -9 your_program' is overkill; it forcefully terminates the > program with SIGKILL, which means the program has no chance to clean up > after itself, and can leave your file system in a mess for the next time > you attempt to run the program. You should reserve this for a > last-ditch effort, only after the nicer 'kill your_program' (SIGTERM) or > 'kill -s INT' (SIGINT) both result in no action. > I had the impression he needs the last resort... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple