Re: lynx-dev Alert: this client does not contain support for HTTPS urls.

[David Woolley]

> 
> Using ksh you can avoid the ps/sed script by using
>       kill -9 $!

Wrong.  The equivalent would be:

kill -15 $! 

or, maybe:

kill -TERM $!

Using kill -9 is a bad habit that is difficult to break.  kill -9 says
stop immediately, don't delete temporary files, don't release database
locks, don't close down protocols cleanly etc (although some of these
may be done by the kernel, but not deleting of temporary files).  It
should only be used when a normal kill fails, and even then -3 (or -11
for those programs which think it clever to trap -3) are better because
they allow a core dump of what is obviously a broken program.