[FM Discuss] definition of verbose and interactive

[Seth David Schoen]

adam hyde writes:

> I'd like to change a sentence in the cli manual from :
> "Remember that the kill argument is non-interactive and non-verbose by
> default and hence must be used carefully."
> 
> to 
> "Remember that the kill argument is non-interactive (you cant stop it)
> and non-verbose (it doesn't tell you what it is doing) by default and
> hence must be used carefully.""
> 
> is that accurate?

In this case non-interactive means that it doesn't ask you for
confirmation first (like the difference between rm and rm -i).
There are some non-interactive processes which you can still
stop -- for example, by killing them. :-)

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