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Not always. The kill system call can be used to send any signal, it's just got a name that implies you're sending something like SIGKILL or SIGTERM. I have wr
by habosa 13y ago
Not always. The kill system call can be used to send any signal, it's just got a name that implies you're sending something like SIGKILL or SIGTERM. I have written C programs that use kill for harmless inter-process communication.
- eru 13y agoSIGUSER is quite common for that. Or SIGHUP.
- brokenparser 13y agoBy convention, SIGHUP is used by daemons to signal a change of configuration.