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kill -9 skips cleanup in Linux

LinuxProcesseskillintermediate

What this snippet does

SIGKILL cannot be caught, so buffers go unflushed and lock files are left behind.

Expected output

nginx.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=9/KILL

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