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what is the difference between KILL and KILL -9?

  1. Kill -9 allows the child processes to be killed before parent process is killed and Kill forcefully kills the process without giving time to

  2. Kill allows the child processes to be killed before parent process is killed and Kill -9 forcefully kills the process without giving time to

  3. None of the above

  4. both are same
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The standard kill command sends SIGTERM (15), which allows the process to catch the signal, clean up, and terminate gracefully. Kill -9 sends SIGKILL (9), which cannot be caught or ignored - the kernel terminates the process immediately without any cleanup opportunity. Child processes are not automatically handled by SIGKILL.

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