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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] run-command: detect finished children by closed pipe
 rather than waitpid
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 23:18:39 +0100
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Am 11.11.2015 um 21:53 schrieb Stefan Beller:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> wrote:
>> I wonder why task_finish() callback gets to choose a signal. The point here
>> is, IIUC, when one child dies, the others must be halted, too. SIGTERM seems
>> to be the only sensible choice.
>
> SIGKILL would also do?
>
> In case you know your children, you can also send a SIGUSR1 or SIGUSR2.
>...
> So I am not convinced SIGTERM is the only true choice here. And because I
> have no idea which of the signals may be useful in the future, I decided to
> go with all of them.

Fair enough.

-- Hannes