When a parent process is killed by "kill -9", will subprocess also be killed?

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One of my colleague told me this morning, when he killed supervisord by "kill -9", the subprocesses of supervisord is not killed.

He is quite sure about that, but I tried many times and did not find that happen.

So when a parent process is killed by "kill -9", will linux ensure that it's sub-processes also been killed?

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