]] Ben Finney | Felipe Sateler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > I still don't understand why a SIGTERM is needed. If proper cleanup | > is not needed, why not just SIGKILL and be done with it? Is there a | > real reason? | | My understanding only: | | It is preferable for processes to clean up after themselves, which is | the semantic of SIGTERM. Only those processes which were not able to | do so in a timely manner will be abruptly killed with SIGKILL.
But if you have cleanups to do, you should have a proper stop script (or you have a race condition). (If it's just about removing shared memory segments and such, there's no need to clean up -- the system is about to go away anyway.) -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
