I agree here, if you need to use kill on your mac then you are jumping
in a little too fast, talking unix's in general kill - 1 or kill -15
are not always instantaneous and maybe doing a big tidyup before
quitting e.g. a db rollback comes to mind kill -9 is a last resort after
trying a clean kill, I have made that mistake on a large system many
years ago and it took me a while to clean up the mess.
I have used the kill utility on my mac's maybe twice in the three years
since I switched over to mac for personal use.
Chris Barker wrote:
> Bill
>
> Trust me, you don't need to know any of this. I have just looked up
> what "kill" does and Dan's fiddling has been quite superfluous for a
> machine that you would own and on which you would instal applications
> and other files yourself. I had not realised properly that Dan was
> fiddling with someone else's computer ...
>
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