Henning Brauer wrote: > any software which requires special shutdown handling ist busted.
Sounds fair. > all processes get a SIGTERM on shutdown. the ones that need to do > cleanup before they exit need to install a signal handler for that (and > in general they do). Pardon the ignorant question. By what method is shutdown then forced to wait until said processes have cleaned up? Is a response expected by shutdown from the daemon as a result to sending SIGTERM? Regards, -Lars