in my exam, there was a question:
what is linux/command which can't be ignored in any way? write the command to kill a process having id 1234 ?
my answer was : SIGKILL and for second part i have written a C code function kill(1234,SIGKILL).
now my teacher is saying kill() is not a command rather it is function. SO answer is "kill -9 1234" according to him. So can anyone tell that is he wrong or i am wrong ? kill() is a function. thanks in advance.
So can anyone tell that is he wrong or i am wrong ?
You're wrong. The "command" is a Linux program that when run will send SIGKILL to the given process, which basically cannot be ignored. Your teacher clearly wanted you to use "commands" provided by the system, not write a function in C.
I'm curious though. How was your kill() function implemented?
no, no! i have just wrote this :
int kill(1234,SIGKILL);
like this. but he said you should write this:
kill -9 1234
so, now please throw light on it. thanks
You're confusing a C program with the Linux command line.
hm. finally, that's mean he is correct and that means 1 mark is deducted ? :(
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