Re: how to send control-break or ctrl-c signal to a background process?

From: Bill Marcum (bmarcum_at_iglou.com)
Date: 09/28/03


Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 00:49:02 -0400

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 21:03:01 -0500, walala
  <mizhael@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have sent a job to run in background... However I now want to gracefully
> terminate it. This software has a good property that if I press
> control-break, or ctrl-c, it will enter into a graceful termination mode
> that it can still give me some partial useful information... so I don't want
> to use "kill -9" to kill it...
>
So use kill without the -9. Why do you think -9 is an option and not
the default?

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