Well.........perhaps idiot is rather harsh. After all everyone starts off
green. :-)
Cameron Simpson wrote:
> Me> A 9 signal prevents the receiving process from doing any kind of
> Me> cleanup, since it may not be intercepted. As such, it should almost
> Me> NEVER be the first signal you send a process you want to terminate.
> Me> Instead, sent SIGTERM (15), which as it happens is the default signal
> Me> the kill command sends. This lets the receiving process catch it, tidy
> Me> up and _then_ exit.
>
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 07:21:22AM -0500, rpjday wrote:
> | i've always wondered about this, since i recall seeing some old
> | SCO UNIX scripts that explicitly caught signal 9 in the "trap"
> | statement at the top of the script. did this actually do anything?
>
> Nope. The authors of the scripts were probably just idiots, unless SCO
> was Really Really Really Weird. The whole point of 9 is to be
> uncatchable, and thus always usable in times of desperation.
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> Ya see, nothwithstanding the exchange of net.custard-pies, I enjoy discussing
> stuff with Mike, because I know that the positions he adopts are ones he's
> arrived at after careful thought and honest reflection. - Jeremy Henderson
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