Re: Not stopping daemons, where are we?

[Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <20080705063643.GB24276@xxxxxxxx> you wrote:
> Why are all of you talking as though sending SIGTERM were not the
> standard way to tell a process to save its state and exit gracefully?

Thats not the point. It is a quesion of sequence. When you get the killall5
sigterm, then everybody else also gets it. Especially maybe your file
service server. So you might not able to save.

Gruss
Bernd


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