Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (36 mails)

[alan@xxxxxxxxxxx]

On 23 Aug 2003 at 4:56, ewkdfb@xxxxxx wrote:

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Subject:        	[suse-programming-e] force "kill -9"

> Hello everybody out there,
> 
> for testing purposes I need a program which needs "kill -9" (and NOT
> just "kill") to kill its process.
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Frank

Frank,

The you need to include a signal handler to catch and ignore the TERM 
signal (and any other signals you don't want to have their default 
effect) in your program.

I can't be more specific since you don't say what language you are 
using.

Try looking at man 2 signal to get started...

alan
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