"pkill -" forces a restart of the Gnome session

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Why does the "pkill -" command on the Gnome desktop force a restart of the Gnome desktop?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.4

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