Re: gconf craziness
The standard way to tell a process to die nicely is with SIGINT, which
is the default signal used by kill, pkill, and killall. -9 (or SIGKILL)
is an uncatchable signal, while HUP and INT are both catchable.
Processes that do not catch signals will use the default signal handler
which is to immediately exit without saving anything.
So if you want programs to die and you want to be nice, use INT. If you
want programs to reload their config if they support it or die trying,
use HUP.
-Rob
On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 23:43 +0100, John Leach wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 23:35, Chipzz wrote:
> > Very much so. Processes started before the upgrade of xlibs will still
> > have the old .so in memory, and only exiting the app in question will
> > remedy tghe situation; pkill -HUP merely causes them to reread their
> > config, but not exit; as such they will still be using the old lib.
>
> That depends on the program. With gconf, bonobo and the rest, in this
> situation, they all quit. I confirm this using ps.
>
> I use HUP as I imagine it's more graceful than a -9 signal :)
>
> John.
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