Huh.. per O'Reilly:

"The kernel uses the SIGTERM signal to inform the target process that it
should stop."

http://linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/11/30/linux-out-of-memory.html?page=2

Is that out of date?

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:14 PM, Timothy Balcer <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> The OOM killer *is* the kernel, so the AFS logs just know it's dead,
>>
>>> not that the kernel
>>> decided "heeeey...."
>>>
>>
>> Yeah.. I knew that ;-) What I was suggesting was that upon receiving the
>> signal, salvager didn't note that fact in the Salvage log. You could trap
>> SIGTERM, and log it on the way out, no?
>>
>
> The kernel's OOM killer sends SIGKILL, which cannot be trapped or ignored.
>
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