From: "Geo" 

I've never had the AIX kill-9 not work, on NT the kill from the reskit
works for everything except a process that's being debugged but then
killing drwatson will usually clear that. Other than that only a hardware
hang will keep something from being killed.

Geo.

"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
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> Things may have changed but I'm pretty sure that 'kill -9' can have no
> effect in some conditions, if the process is blocked in some system calls
> for example. IOW the signal will be handled when the call returns, but the
> call never returns and isn't interruptible.
>
> If you get an NT process you cannot terminate try attaching to it with a
> debugger, that usually makes it see sense.
>
> Paul
>
> "Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
> news:l1b6j19bo6ummoit70h9snroig3mmjq5ui{at}4ax.com...
> > Should be:
> >
> > In the *nix's I have used, there is the regular kill (kill -15) that
> > nicely  asks the app to shutdown.  Then for those obstinate apps, there
> > is the kill option (kill -9) that pretty much just terminates the
> > process, releases memory, and brushes the crumbs off the table.
> > Obviously, you do not use kill -9 on a whim, but it is nice to know it
> > is there when needed.
> >
> > /m
>
>

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