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    Terminating a process (lemmy.ml)
    submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    Yes yes, I REALLY want to terminate that process and I am very sure about it too, ty.

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    [–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    Kill -9 is a command on Unix and Linux to send signal 9 (SIGKILL) to a process. That's the version of kill that is the most reliable and has immediate effect.

    Taskkill is a Windows command line program. I believe that taskkill /f uses the TerminateProcess() API. This is more forceful than the End Task button on the Task Manager. There is a different End Process button on the Task Manager that does use TerminateProcess().

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    Is the 9 pertaining to permissions like chmod uses them? I'll have to look it up sometime. Been awhile since I've ever actually needed to force quit something in a Linux os

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

    No, it's just the number of a specific signal.

    https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal.7.html

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

    Thanks for that, I'll have a ganter. Need to spin up a new VM soon and figure out a new distro to play with. Been slacking on exploring new things. Mostly only played with Yellow dog (small enough to dual boot on a PS3 with 512mb of ram back in the day), Ubuntu, Debian for other things. Likely will look for something that will work well for a media server.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    Have fun exploring! I just have a simple Raspberry Pi at home with a few services, after working with this stuff all the time I rarely feel like tinkering at home :D