Hi,
ext Marius Gedminas wrote:
>>> kill (pid, SIGUSR1);
>>> kill (pid, SIGKILL);
>>> }
>>>
>>> Why shall we kill pid in the end? Can't the program exit normally?
>> AFAIK it can be quite a bit faster.
>>
>> Normal process exit goes through a lot of destructor code,
>> freeing things that are anyway freed by the operating system
>> when process terminates. Browser is threaded, so maybe that
>> the destructors use locking too...
>
> That's what the _exit() function from <unistd.h> is for, isn't it?
I guess it could be used instead. Maybe somebody wants to
file a bug? (I think that unlike SIGKILL, debugger can
catch _exit())
- Eero
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