[TUHS] Origin of 'kill -9'?

[Warner Losh]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Lars Brinkhoff <lars at nocrew.org> wrote:

> Don Hopkins wrote:
> > 9 means “no” in German.
>
> Isn't it nine = neun, but no = nein?
>

Yes. But this is more of a pun. English 9 (nine) == German No (nein). Kinda
like Oct 31 == Dec 25...

Warner
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