[PD-dev] SIGTERM and Pd

[Miller Puckette]

TERM kills Pd just fine on linux... I'm not sure, but I remember finding
Pd harder to kill on Macintoshes, but never understood why.

M

On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 08:51:25PM -0400, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> Is there any reason why Pd does not respond to SIGTERM?  I just  
> thought I'd ask before I add it.  It seems that oftentimes, Pd  
> doesn't die like a regular process, and you have to use kill -KILL.   
> I am guessing that is because it does not respond to SIGTERM, which  
> is the POSIX signal for quitting.  (FYI: SIGQUIT is not actually for  
> quitting the processing, but for triggering a core dump: http:// 
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGQUIT)
> 
> .hc
> 
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