Distributors ponder a systemd change

Posted Jun 8, 2016 15:33 UTC (Wed) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Distributors ponder a systemd change by paulj
Parent article: Distributors ponder a systemd change

Programs that want to clean up after themselves must already trap SIGTERM (which is the signal that kill(1) and friends send by default). If their cleanup process fails such that they hang or loop rather than exit, or otherwise takes longer than systemd – or for that matter shutdown(8), which follows exactly the same approach as systemd – lets them have, they get bopped on the head with a SIGKILL. This is not exactly breaking new ground.