Re: kill -9 <pid of X>

Neil Conway (nconway.list@ukaea.org.uk)
Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:40:40 +0000

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And yes, I could remove that these days. Anybody who does "kill -1" as
> root these days gets whatever he asked for.

Hmm, AFAIR RedHat and Slackware (and probably all distribs) use exactly
that for changing to several of the runlevels...

Neil
PS: having said that, 'man 1 kill' says that 'kill -1' kills only
process numbers 2 and up.

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