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Well, it might still run but it lets you out of the editor, which is the goal here. You can just kill -9 it afterwards.
by Anderkent 11y ago
Well, it might still run but it lets you out of the editor, which is the goal here. You can just kill -9 it afterwards.
- mcguire 11y agoIf you have good reflexes, you can type "^Z" right after "kill -9", before the syscall to send the signal is executed. Legend has it that, if you do, you bring on the Singularity immediately.
- dllthomas 11y agoThere is no reason for -9 here - all the major unix editors happily exit on SIGTERM.