I have always used kill -7 to stop a process on my server as i was led to believe that this takes down the process in a controlled way, however i cannot back this up as i can only find that kill -7 takes an EMT instruction - What is EMT and should i be using -7 ?
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USING kill -7
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Hi maxcrook,
kill -7 sends SIGEMT EMT instruction and it specifies the default action that includes creating a core dump file.
U can obtain the stack from a running thread on AIX 32bit by sending this signal ,it doesn't work on AIX 64bit.
I think u shouldn't use SIGEMT (-7) for general killing purpose ... send SIGTERM (-15) as alexhu has mentioed.
Best Regards,
vivek
kill -7 sends SIGEMT EMT instruction and it specifies the default action that includes creating a core dump file.
U can obtain the stack from a running thread on AIX 32bit by sending this signal ,it doesn't work on AIX 64bit.
I think u shouldn't use SIGEMT (-7) for general killing purpose ... send SIGTERM (-15) as alexhu has mentioed.
Best Regards,
vivek
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