On 15-09-22 03:42 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
On 23 September 2015 at 00:35, Dimitar Zhekov <dimitar.zhe...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, all,
Should spawn_kill_process send a SIGTERM or SIGKILL to the child under *nix?
- SIGTERM lets the child exit gracefully, removing temporary files etc.
This says it all, blasting a process and possibly leaving the build
system in an unknown state is a "bad thing" (tm).
[...]
Agree SIGTERM sounds more polite. I think well behaved DEs (or is it in
the window manager?) will prompt you to really kill a process if it's
not responding, so we could leave that to them.
[...]
- the API name is "kill", not terminate.
Its too late to change it now if its in the API.
For now we could do something like:
/** @deprecated @see spawn_terminate_process() */
gboolean spawn_kill_process(GPid pid, GError **error) {
return spawn_terminate_process(pid, error);
}
Cheers,
Matthew Brush
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