On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Martin d'Anjou <martin.danjo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 15-04-23 05:56 PM, Ole Tange wrote: > > > Let us say you do not know that 9 = KILL (it took me several UNIX > > years before I learned that), but you want to send kill -9. > > > > How should that be expressed in --termseq? > > Good question. I'd be surprised if a user attempted to use --term-seq > without looking it up. So the --term-seq documentation (all of it, tutorial > included) should be clear that it uses signal names, not numerical values. > The documentation should point out the mapping between signal names and > their numerical value at least for a few common signals (INT=2, TERM=15, > KILL=9), then refer the user to their OS (unix: kill -l, trap -l, Windows: > ?).
Sounds fair. >> Do I want to send the signal to the process group or just the process > > To me it makes sense to first terminate the parent process and let it > terminate its own children, as it is a valid way of writing programs (see > http://mywiki.wooledge.org/SignalTrap). > > If processes remain after the first pass, reapply the termination sequence > to the process group. This you have to elaborate. Explain how this --termseq is executed (with special emphasis on process groups): --termseq HUP,2,TERM,10,TERM,20,INT,30,KILL /Ole
