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Question 31. CSCD240-E1-B

Process 31337 refuses SIGTERM. Terminate unconditionally.

Work the drill

Answer on paper or in a terminal before revealing the ideal answer.

Ideal answer
kill -9 31337
Acceptable alternatives: ["kill -SIGKILL 31337", "kill -KILL 31337"]

Misconception bank

Each row below is a plausible wrong answer, the thinking that produces it, and the remedy that corrects the misconception. These are the foundation of the multiple-choice framing and the targeted feedback a student receives after answering.

kill 31337
Misconception. Default SIGTERM; already known to fail.
Remedy. Escalation path: -15 → -9.

Authority mappings

Hover any chip for the mapping justification; click to open the authority record.

DCWF tasks: T0501
KU outcomes: CO-M3-O3
NCAE errors: Postgres Access / failure: An error was encounter.WWW Port 80 / failure: Failed to connect to serve.SMB Login / failure: SMB operation failed: [Errno.SSH Login / failure: Failed to connect to host: IPSMB Login / failure: SMB operation failed: [Errno.SMB Login / failure: SMB connection failed: proto.SSH Login / partial: The following users failed t.SSH Login / partial: The following users failed t.WWW Port 80 / failure: HTTP not found

Course-artifact links

Lectures

  • CSCD240-S26-L08. Pipes, filters, grep, sort, uniq, wc, tar

Lab questions

  • CSCD240-S26-LAB6: Start a command, kill with default signal; start again, kill -9.