If it's responding, it will respond to a SIGTERM. If it's "not responding", a SIGTERM wouldn't work in any case, so even with your code you'd need to use a SIGKILL.
If it's responding, it will respond to a SIGTERM. If it's "not responding", a SIGTERM wouldn't work in any case, so even with your code you'd need to use a SIGKILL.
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Originally Posted by dwks
Usually a program which is 'not responding' will respond to a sigint if the signal handler is programed in a sensible way, similar to the way I described, ie not returning back to the
main program. If you programmed it in the way with the 'stop' flag then when it was 'not
responding' sending it a sigint would be a waste of time.
Last edited by esbo; 08-31-2006 at 04:54 PM.
