Re: dspam stop with kill -9

Julien Vehent <[email protected]> Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:10:52 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.dspam.devel
Organization linuxwall.info
Message-ID <[email protected]>
 On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 18:22:20 +0200, Ibrahim Harrani wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Sometimes, dspam does not stop will kill $PID command especially when
> the process very busy.
> Is it safe to stop with kill -9?
>
>

 -9 kills without letting the program close its file descriptors. this 
 is not good and you shouldn't do it unless it's absolutely necessary.


 Julien

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