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I’m not referring to grandchildren: if you have parent P with children C1 and C2 and P receives -9, P dies and C1 and C2 persist.
by PeterWhittaker 3y ago
I’m not referring to grandchildren: if you have parent P with children C1 and C2 and P receives -9, P dies and C1 and C2 persist.
- gavinhoward 3y agoYes, but if a process gets a SIGKILL, the user is explicitly saying that they don't want that process to do anything else. Otherwise, they would send a SIGTERM. So a SIGKILL is really the user passing the responsibility of the children onto some other process.