[mdlug] Open Office failures

[Wojtak, Greg]

Technically, they can vary from system to system.  In practice, I haven't run across a UNIX or UNIX-like system where they are different.  Kill -9 sends a SIGKILL to the process, which is not trappable - that is, it is immediately killed off from the process table.  Kill -15 sends a SIGTERM which also tells the process to die off, but it is trappable and the process can therefore call a function to run cleanup before actually dying off.

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From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of David Lane
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:40 PM
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What is the difference between "kill -9" and "kill -15"


David C. Lane 

 



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From: "Wojtak, Greg" <GregWojtak at quickenloans.com>
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Sent: Wed, February 17, 2010 1:33:55 PM
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Well, since my login id is 'root'...  ;) 

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From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Raymond McLaughlin
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 1:09 PM
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Wojtak, Greg wrote:
> killall -9 soffice.bin would do the trick, too.  :)
>But only if you intend to... well, kill all soffice.bin processes. 

Actually it would kill all soffice.bin processes that your current user
has permisions to kill. You *shouldn't* be able to kill processes of
other users. Of course this is of concern only on systems with multiple
concurrent users.

Raymond Mclaughlin

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