Quick Answer: How Do You Terminate a Process in Unix?
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How do you terminate a process?

Terminating a process has the following results:

  1. Any remaining threads in the process are marked for termination.
  2. Any resources allocated by the process are freed.
  3. All kernel objects are closed.
  4. The process code is removed from memory.
  5. The process exit code is set.
  6. The process object is signaled.

How do you kill a process in Linux?

There are two commands used to kill a process: kill – Kill a process by ID. killall – Kill a process by name.
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Killing the process.

Signal Name Single Value Effect
SIGHUP 1 Hangup
SIGINT 2 Interrupt from keyboard
SIGKILL 9 Kill signal
SIGTERM 15 Termination signal
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