SIGKILL

[coder1]

Hello, I was looking on the internet for the causes of SIGKILL runtime error, but I found nothing, can you help me?
Thank you


Coder1

[Catfish4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_signal#SIGKILL
http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/signals/signals-programming.html
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/node24.html#SECTION002400000000000000000

It's not a runtime error in itself. It's a signal that tells the process to die immediately (hence SIGKILL).

A process may receive a SIGKILL from the user but I'm not sure what runtime errors would cause the operating system to send a SIGKILL on its own.

[Dy7SLyTq]

would that be called suicide?

[JLBorges]

> I'm not sure what runtime errors would cause the operating system to send a SIGKILL on its own.

This is typical for Posix:

This signal is usually generated only by explicit request. ....

The system will generate SIGKILL for a process itself under some unusual conditions where the program cannot possibly continue to run (even to run a signal handler).

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Termination-Signals.html