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stopping Classic
But should kill -9 [a] be the preferred way to cleanly shutdown a big application like Classic, and [b] is kill -9 guaranteed to bring it down? I ask because I'm used to using kill & kill -9 in Unix to kill off offending shell programs & the occasional frozen Netscape process, but I still don't quite trust it in MacOSX.
stopping Classic
I can only go by what little I've learned in the last 8 months or so...but I have yet to have kill -9 *not* kill a process on either of my three OSX boxes. kill -9 is not a "clean" way of stopping any process, basically it stops it dead in it's tracks...no time for clean up, etc. That's originally why I said I use it as a last resort. Kind of like force-quitting an app in OS 9 (and earlier), if it worked back then. I work with people that force-quit an app the *instant* it doesn't respond, so I'm not a big fan of force-quitting, unless absolutely necessary.
stopping Classic
I've been using Unix for years, and kill -9 is basically always the method of last resort -- if a process hangs, try killing it normally and if that doesn't work then try kill -9, and in the rare case try running kill or kill -9 as root, but with great hesistation. Ususally a regular kill will work, and if not kill -9 does; having to go in as root basically never happens. |
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