What is the difference between kill and kill -9 commands?
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Answer / bharath
kill <pid>
allows to kill the normal process.
where as
kill -9 <pid>
to kill normal process and also background process.
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Answer / majeed090
kill <pid>
to kill all process but not kill the some child process
called Zombie process.
kill -9 <pid>
by using this it kills all process forcefully.
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Answer / guest
kill used for terminate the process but kill -9 used to
kill process forcefully
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