On 2010-03-08, Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Also what about the case where a command usually
> behaves normally and exits when it gets a TERM,
> but sometimes it hangs and needs a KILL which
> you specify with timeout. You wouldn't want to
> change the TERM into a KILL in that case.
That is actually exactly my case, but I could live with sending it a
KILL all the time.
>
> Perhaps we could handle all cases with
> the equivalent of:
>
> if (sig==TERM && user_sig==KILL) {
> send(sig); /* give chance to term gracefully */
> sleep(1);
> send(KILL); /* nuke it from orbit */
> }
Good idea, that would solve all my problems, and at the same time it
changes the interface for other users very little. A SIGNALS section
in the man page explainig this might also be a good idea.
Can you tell me what version of coreutils this change will end up in?
Thanks,
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