[coyotos-dev] Sleep for interval

[Sam Mason]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 11:54:37AM -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 16:35 +0100, Sam Mason wrote:
> > > Your choice of SIGTERM makes your question ambiguous. The purpose of
> > > SIGTERM is to destroy a process, not to deliver a signal.
> > 
> > I'm bad with signals, but isn't SIGKILL more closer to destroying a
> > spacebank under Coyotos?  To me, SIGTERM says; the user has requested
> > that you clean-up and terminate sometime soon.
> 
> Go check the section 7 manual page. Unless I read it wrong, SIGTERM
> really is terminal.

Mine says: "The signals SIGKILL and SIGSTOP cannot be caught, blocked,
or ignored."  My reading suggests that SIGTERM will, by default,
terminate the process but this can be changed.

This really wasn't the point of my original comment though.  :)


  Sam