Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Question:
Explain the difference between SIGTERM and SIGKILL?
Answer:
SIGTERM asks the application to terminate in a polite way, it warns about the pending closure and asks the app to finish whatever it is doing. SIGKILL will kill the process no matter what. This is telling the application that it will be shut down no matter what.
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