Re: reboot(8) delay between SIGTERM and SIGKILL

2001-03-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ian Dowse writes: > >I have noticed that reboot(8) sometimes appears not to wait long >enough before sending the final SIGKILL to all processes. On a >system that has a lot of processes swapped out, some processes such >as the X server may get a SIGKILL before they

reboot(8) delay between SIGTERM and SIGKILL

2001-03-19 Thread Ian Dowse
I have noticed that reboot(8) sometimes appears not to wait long enough before sending the final SIGKILL to all processes. On a system that has a lot of processes swapped out, some processes such as the X server may get a SIGKILL before they have had a chance to perform their exit cleanup. The p