In <2452754326666281.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu>, on 07/23/2012 at 03:55 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>As I stated initially, one of my motives was portability. In a >conventional UNIX system, processes needn't register to receive >SIGTERM. In a conventional Unix system, applications are written to expect SIGTERM. That is not the case in z/OS. >Likewise, it should be unnecessary in z/OS UNIX (USS). It's not necessary in Unformatted System Services. It is necessary in z/OS that you not arbitrarily terminated all of the address spaces that have been dubbed. Given the behavior of SIGTERM, it is not appropriate to use it as a global shutdown mechanism for address spaces that are not expecting it. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN