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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: filesystem signal handling
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 20:28:35 +0100
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Trond Myklebust wrote:
> As for SIGINT vs SIGKILL - the only difference I can see is that the
> former can be generated directly from the keyboard.

The other difference is that SIGINT can be intercepted by the
application to do cleanups or whatever; SIGKILL cannot.

-- Jamie