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This a Linux joke? I'm interested, what's sigterm and sigkill?
Sigterm is telling someone to kill themselves. Sigkill is murder.
But, like, for programs.
Sigterm is a signal that tells a program to prepare to close down.
Sigkill just shoots it with a shotgun and murder its all family.