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On Apr 23, 2005, at 11:16 AM, Michael Fuhr wrote:
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 10:58:46AM -0500, Thomas F.O'Connell wrote:
It is generally not recommended that you kill processes with anything stronger than HUP, which is (I believe) what kill sends by default.
kill usually sends TERM by default, not HUP.
(I say "usually" only because I haven't personally examined every implementation of kill in existence. Every one I've used sends TERM by default and I haven't heard of any that work otherwise.)
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