... other than what its name implies.
kill is most often used without an argument or with -9, to kill a process off.
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Weekly tip: killing processes
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com –
One of the things I hate about Windows is that there is no good way to kill frozen processes. Theoretically, you type Ctrl-Alt-Delete, wait for Task Manager to pop up, and kill the process. But in reality, the process doesn't always die immediately (it usually takes multiple tries and a very long time). GNU/Linux users don't have this problem.
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