Re: kill-process sends SIGKILL (9)?

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From: Greg A. Woods
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 15:23

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[ On Tue, August 16, 1994 at 15:48:39 (-0700), Roger Crew wrote: ]
> Subject: kill-process sends SIGKILL (9)?
>
> Proposal 1:
>   (*) change kill-process to send SIGTERM
>   (*) change delete-process to send SIGKILL directly
>         (i.e., rather than call Fkill_process)

YES!  SIGKILL is only to be used carefully and sparingly, i.e. as a last
resort.

Or perhaps kill-process could take an optional additional argument being
the signal to send, and SIGTERM should be the default.  (In which case
a similar change to delete-process would be appropriate.)

-- 
						Greg A. Woods

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