Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:09:02 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Rob Hagopian wrote:
>
> I hate to get sucked into this thread, but really... if there's no
> legitimate reason to 'kill -9' the X server then why the heck is there
> such think as 'kill -9' in the first place?

'If there is no legitimate reason to kill the current president of the
United States with a shotgun, then why the heck are there such things
as "shotguns" in the first place?'

Where did you learn your logic?

"kill -9" is very useful. But you'd better be damned well aware that when
you do it, you're killing the process and leaving it no chance to clean
up. If you consider a corrupted screen unacceptable, then you should
consider "kill -9 X" unacceptable.

Linus

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