Wishing programs do extra work desroys performance. Some programs run forever unless terminated. If you don't want a program to terminate early, don't send it a

Wishing programs do extra work desroys performance. Some programs run forever unless terminated. If you don't want a program to terminate early, don't send it a termination signal! The the Unix philosophy is that users are smart and should be obeyed, not that programs should do what they think should have asked for instead. Forcing the user to negotiate with the program like a TARDIS is madness