I wrote:
> After digging in the man page for init(8) on a couple of machines,
> I realized that the SIGTERM-then-SIGKILL behavior only applies to
> processes that are launched directly by init.
Actually, after further experimentation, it seems this is very
platform-dependent.
Current Linux (teste
If you've paid any attention to our signal handling and shutdown
procedures, you know that there is a whole lot of design and logic
based on the assumption that during a forced system shutdown,
we will see SIGTERM delivered to all PG processes, with a little bit
of grace time before we get SIGKILL'