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by monroeclinton 1648 days ago
I don't find the argument about kill convincing. You can use `kill pid` and it will send a SIGTERM signal to the process. The -9 option is only necessary when you want to send a SIGKILL signal. I don't think it is a bad thing that kill gives users the option to choose which signal to send. I only use the -9 option when I want to terminate a process without it being handled.