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SIGKILL can't be handled. It's the signal you send when you don't want to give the process a chance to handle it.



That's the difference between kill -15 (SIGTERM) and kill -9 (SIGKILL), where SIGTERM shuts down a process gracefully.


Relevant: Monzy performs at Stanford Univ. "Kill Dash Nine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fow7iUaKrq4


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