Am 10.07.2013 um 02:09 schrieb Hamish Moffatt <ham...@risingsoftware.com>:
> On 09/07/13 17:00, Till Oliver Knoll wrote:
>> By the way: SIGTERM is the signal sent to a console application when
>> pressing CTRL + C (also on Windows).
> I think that's SIGINT actually, but I'm nitpicking..
Yeah, right :)
Trying to refresh my memory about my "Operating Systems" lectures back 15+
years ago I did an educated "sigint vs sigterm" Google research (and the
auto-complete feature told me that I must have been the 1'000'000st person to
ask this question) and came across the following:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4042201/how-does-sigint-relate-to-the-other-termination-signals
Simply put, the SIGINT signal (and SIGQUIT, for that matter) can be "generated
by the console itself" (by pressing CTRL + C for instance - sic!), whereas all
other signals "require an extra application" (such as 'kill').
Other than that SIGINT behaves exactly like SIGTERM: they can be caught and the
application is given a chance to properly cleanup (including the possibility to
ignore that signal).
Cheers,
Oliver
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