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Answer by Dummy00001 for Why does kill -9 0 on a mac simply kill the bash shell?

and kernel_task's pid is 0They probably use the PID 0, because it is a reserved PID and as such you cannot send signals to the process.I simply ran kill -9 0.The *nix command kill is more or less a...

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Why does kill -9 0 on a mac simply kill the bash shell?

I'm trying to see what happens when I try to kill the kernel_task process. Since kill -9 pid is the command to force quit a process, and kernel_task's pid is 0, I simply ran kill -9 0.Instead of...

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