What *exactly* gets screwed when I kill -9 or pull the power?
- by Mike
Set-Up
I've been a programmer for quite some time now but I'm still a bit fuzzy on deep, internal stuff.
Now. I am well aware that it's not a good idea to either:
kill -9 a process (bad)
spontaneously pull the power plug on a running computer or server (worse)
However, sometimes you just plain have to. Sometimes a process just won't respond…