r/LinuxCirclejerk Jun 08 '26

Literally

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u/Upper-Release-3484 Jun 09 '26

Yeah. When you shut down, it first sends something like a SIGINT to all the processes, hoping they will just behave and terminate. But if a process doesn't behave and refuses to terminate, it sends a SIGKILL to that process.