Re: 'crafty' took ages to kill

From: Robert Hyatt (hyatt_at_crafty.cis.uab.edu)
Date: 12/31/03 

Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 02:49:50 +0000 (UTC)

In rec.games.chess.computer Lyle Merdan <lyle@visi.com> wrote:

> If a kill -9 doesn't zap a process I usuall try kill -XCPU and that
> will many times do the trick.

> Lyle

-XCPU is "softer" than -9 (SIGKILL). That just reports "CPU time
exceeded" but the process can still run a bit longer... 

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