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what is the difference between KILL and KILL -9?

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what is the difference between KILL and KILL -9?..

Answer / daniel

The simple kill command will give the signal SIGTERM, while kill -9 will give the signal SIGKILL.

Is This Answer Correct ?    44 Yes 2 No

what is the difference between KILL and KILL -9?..

Answer / birendra

Kill command will kill the proecess without specifying the
force whereas when we need to apply the force or priority
to kill any process we use kill -9.

Is This Answer Correct ?    35 Yes 4 No

what is the difference between KILL and KILL -9?..

Answer / ravi k srivastava

Kill allows the child processes to be killed before parent
process is killed.
Kill -9 forcefully kills the process without giving time to
child processes to be killed. In IPC architecture, its not
good idea to kill forcefully using "-9" option.

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what is the difference between KILL and KILL -9?..

Answer / viraj

The simple kill command will give the signal SIGTERM, while
kill -9 will give the signal SIGKILL.

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what is the difference between KILL and KILL -9?..

Answer / kiruthiga.s

KILL --> its a graceful terminating of proocess
kill-9--> terminates the process force fully

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