Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 16:54:24 -0500 From: "Gary Gatten" <Ggatten@waddell.com> To: "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com>, "Peter Steele" <psteele@maxiscale.com> Cc: #freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Why would a kill -2 not work? Message-ID: <70C0964126D66F458E688618E1CD008A0793ED2E@WADPEXV0.waddell.com> In-Reply-To: <D12FD20D-4758-4FC6-B507-603C9A425EF2@mac.com> References: <30551570.941242683137179.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> <D12FD20D-4758-4FC6-B507-603C9A425EF2@mac.com>
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What he said. It's better to just stick with -9; it almost always works! ;-) -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Swiger Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 4:49 PM To: Peter Steele Cc: #freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Why would a kill -2 not work? Hi-- On May 18, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Peter Steele wrote: > This is basically what we doing. When the handler is triggered we=20=20 > set a global variable to indicate the system is shutting down. I=20=20 > also signal a condition to wake up a sleeping thread. The lack of=20=20 > log messages indicate that this handler never gets called and the=20=20 > system carries on as if the kill -2 never happened. You're not trying to send a signal within the signal handler itself,=20=20 are you? That won't work-- signal delivery is blocked when you're=20=20 already running in a signal handler. Also, note that trying to mix=20=20 signals with a multithreaded process is complicated.... --=20 -Chuck _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" <font size=3D"1"> <div style=3D'border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0i= n 0in 1.0pt 0in'> </div> "This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, use, dissemination, disclosure or copying of this email and its attachments, if any, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please immediately notify the sender by return email and delete this email from your system." </font>
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