On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:00 -0800, Brandin Creech wrote: > --- Iban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What is the equivalent SIGNAL to "Archive - Quit" of a program > > windowed (example: firefox)?? > > > > I don't want to kill it by brute force. I want a normal exit. > > SIGTERM is the best signal to quit, I think. Programs can trap the signal, so > sometimes they'll clean up before SIGTERM. SIGKILL, on the other hand, cannot > be trapped, so it will always quit the program--useful if the program has > frozen and SIGTERM doesn't work. However, if you have unsaved documents in > the programs, I don't think any signal will cause the programs to save > automatically.
Just to note, TERM is also the default signal used by 'kill', if you don't specify a different one (e.g -9 / -KILL). Simon.
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