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Well kill program_name didn't work and kill -9 is pretty much what I am 
looking for.
Does it matter if you are gonna overwrite the program if you use kill -9?


marco atzeri wrote:
> 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...
>
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