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Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>, Honza Holakovsky <holakac@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Some processes stay active after killing its PID
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On Tuesday 27 November 2007 03:14 pm, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:59:06PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 01:24:56PM -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith 
wrote:
> > > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Honza Holakovsky wrote:
> > >> Well, didn't know that, "/bin/kill -9 wdfs_PID" works, great
> > >>
> > >> Thanks a lot, after your advice I read an article about csh
> > >> built-in commands, never heard of it from any fbsd handbook...
> > >
> > > I am completely baffled why this worked.  Why would /bin/kill
> > > -9 work when the built in csh kill -9 wouldn't?
> >
> > According to the manual page for the built-in kill command, it
> > recognizes 'kill -s 9', but not 'kill -9'.
>
> What's even more awesome is that the csh manpage actually refers to
> the use of the kill -[signal] syntax:
>
>                or from a command run at completion time:
>                    > complete kill 'p/*/`ps | awk \{print\ \$1\}`/'
>                    > kill -9 [^D]
>
>                    23113 23377 23380 23406 23429 23529 23530 PID
>
> Hooray for consistency.

I just checked the source and 'kill -9' should work, too.  I believe 
it was fixed on RELENG_7, i.e., tcsh 6.15a.  RELENG_6 still has 6.14.

Jung-uk Kim