Am 14.04.2012 20:19, schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan: >> When you do a "kill" you are sending a "signal" to a process and that >> process will >> act upon it depending on the signal. For example, if you did a "kill -1" to >> the >> named process it will cause it to reread its configuration files and zone >> files. >> >> Whatever process you send the kill to must be in a state where it can >> receive and >> process the signal. > > Exactly. The correct view of "kill -9" is not that you kill the process > but that you order the process to commit suicide. If it's not listening, > no amount of shouting is going to make a difference.
that is all correct on the other hand i am missing understanding that there is no root-command to kill such processes without "their help" the kernel should be able to kill anything sounds like a missing interface for me
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