Process Management

Signal

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Overview

A lightweight message delivered to a process as an interrupt.

Details

A lightweight notification mechanism delivered to a process asynchronously, conveying events such as termination, pausing, or resuming. SIGTERM (15) requests a graceful exit, while SIGKILL (9) forcibly terminates a process with no chance to refuse -- overusing kill -9 is discouraged, since it prevents the process from cleaning up its resources.

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