> On Feb 4, 2016, at 5:05 PM, David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Java hasn't needed a public signal handling API for the last 20 years. It's > only getting one now because modularity is forcing us to cut-off > sun.misc.Signal from the few use-cases that do need it. And we now have a > "shell" mechanism that also wants to do some process management. This is > fundamentally about ctrl-C and ctrl-\ hooks because the native shells turn > those into signals.
As a data point, the primary use case I gathered and reported by some customers using sun.misc.Signal is the ability to intercept control-C. SIGTERM, SIGKILL, SIGTRAP are also intercepted in addition to SIGINT [1] Mandy [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2015-June/004362.html
