Lexicon

Hard Process Kill

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Correctness Core

Record: lexicon:hard-process-kill

Canonical: Lexicon

Terminating a process abruptly without draining work, dropping in-flight requests and risking corrupt state.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Connection Cleanup and before In-Flight Work Drain.

Category

  • Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety

Negated by

  • Graceful Shutdown

Violates

  • Graceful Shutdown

Linked from

  • Self-Healing / Recovery / Deployment Safety