Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:02:50 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, rb@gid.co.uk Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: 2.2R (src 2.2 211): <ctrl><alt><del> == dialing Message-ID: <199703252202.JAA12965@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>This differs from when the system is shut down using reboot(8). reboot
>>shuts things down by broadcasting signals of increasing severity
>>{ SIGTERM, SIGKILL }. I don't know why init broadcasts SIGHUP...
>
>That I can tell you: interactive shells don't respond to SIGTERM. OTOH,
>init shouldn't send SIGHUP to daemons (ie sessions with no controlling tty)
>because they mostly take HUP to mean "reread your config".
Init can't know enough about program (mis)behaviour to do this. The slattach
daemon has a controlling tty, but shouldn't be sent a SIGHUP, since that
tells it to redial.
I think ignoring SIGTERM is braindamaged.
Bruce
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