On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 12:04 -0300, Juergen Botz wrote: > Maybe this is a stupid question... and to be honest I have not > looked at the code. But there have been many times that I > really needed to terminate a running yum, and right now I have > to use SIGKILL and then I usually need do a 'clean metadata'. > At best this seems to be bad UI... users need a way to cleanly > stop any process on the system. in the majority of the situation it is due to rpm grabbing those signals so that a user will not cancel a process in the middle of its database being written to which could leave the system in a bad state. -sv
