On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 02:00:11PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote: > In the last exciting episode, mike@xxxxxxxx (Michael Fuhr) wrote: > > > > kill usually sends TERM by default, not HUP. > > > > (I say "usually" only because I haven't personally examined every > > implementation of kill in existence. Every one I've used sends > > TERM by default and I haven't heard of any that work otherwise.) > > The only "normative" standard that would seem meaningful would be > POSIX. A quick "google" doesn't find anything relevant there. Yeah, I meant to check that. My quick google yielded the following: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/kill.html "The sig argument is the value specified by the -s option, - signal_number option, or the - signal_name option, or by SIGTERM, if none of these options is specified." -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/
