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Don’t be ruthless to your processes July 28, 2010
It’s a common (while wrong) practice while administering *NIX/BSD servers (or even stations) to terminate hanged processes with the kill command.
Although the name suggests that it will mercilessly murder the process, its more a signal thrower. Signals tell processes to take determinate actions such as pause, continue, terminate, interrupt current work etc.
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