Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 11:34:48 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: John Duncan <jddst19+@pitt.edu> Cc: Bill Harrison <bill@mis.ashrae.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dumb Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961108113342.16871G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <32835195.41C67EA6@pitt.edu>
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On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, John Duncan wrote: > > What does a message from the kernel mean when it "exits on signal 1" > > It means you caught a SIGHUP, a hangup signal. Other things generate > hangups as well. The application usually exits fine with those. > > On a different note, for others who read this message, why do SIGTERM > and SIGKILL work nicely, but a SIGQUIT, which sounds nice and all, dump > core most of the time? Because the apps you may be using may handle SIGTERM and SIGKILL nicely, but not SIGQUIT; the default action on SIGQUIT is to core dump. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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