• @[email protected]
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      2610 months ago

      Sigterm is telling someone to kill themselves. Sigkill is murder.

      But, like, for programs.

    • RozaŭtunoOP
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      1210 months ago

      Sigterm is a signal that tells a program to prepare to close down.

      Sigkill just shoots it with a shotgun and murder its all family.