On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:23:36 -0400, zMan wrote: > >> Some years ago, I suggested in MVS-OE that MVS shutdown should >> send SIGTERM to all dubbed processes so that processes coded to >> UNIX conventions could perform orderly shutdown. The suggestion >> was not well received. > >Can you elaborate? Why would orderly shutdown not be A Good Thing? > "They" didn't say. Too UNIXy for them. But I'll conjecture: Many address spaces get dubbed nowadays by incidental use of UNIX services such as TCP/IP. The default action for SIGTERM if a process doesn't handle it is that the process is terminated. This would be unwelcomed by a process that was waiting rather for a legacy MODIFY command to shut itself down.
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