There are even more ways to kill a process on a Unix/Linux system than there are ways to skin a cat.

How to Kill a Process on a Unix Computer. In the business world, Unix computers are typically used for server applications and high-end graphics workstations, such as those used in creating ...

On Unix/Linux systems, there are quite a few commands that can provide insights into the processes that are running, the resources those processes use, and the users responsible for them. Some of ...

A reader recently asked how he could most easily terminate processes that were left running after his users had logged off a system. The processes in question were apparently consuming resources ...

How to Change the Start Order of Processes in Linux. The Linux operating system is powerful and flexible, able to run in several different modes of operation called run levels. When a Linux system ...

Daniel Colascione submitted some code to support processes knowing when others have terminated. Normally a process can tell when its own child processes have ended, but not unrelated processes, or at ...

By using these methods, you can efficiently manage background processes in Linux, ensuring that your terminal remains available for other tasks while long-running commands execute in the background.

This article briefly examines and compares the kernels of the three most widely used quasi-Unix operating systems using three axes of comparison: efficiency, evolvement, and user friendliness. The ...

One of the most crucial pieces of any UNIX-like operating system is the init dæmon process. In Linux, this process is started by the kernel, and it's the first userspace process to spawn and the last ...

NT also introduced the concept of pico-processes, which allow for processes with minimal Windows constructs, and are used in WSL 1 to implement Linux-compatible processes.