SIGHUP for "session has gone away", not SIGTERM/SIGKILL

Posted Jun 11, 2016 11:55 UTC (Sat) by ras (subscriber, #33059)
In reply to: SIGHUP for "session has gone away", not SIGTERM/SIGKILL by pizza
Parent article: Distributors ponder a systemd change

> Then it's a good thing that you're not forced to choose between those two, eh?

If we could leave it turned off with no repercussions other than our tmux sessions continue to run, there wouldn't be almost 300 posts on LWN about this. The reality is, if we want GNOME to clean up properly, we have to enable KillUserProcesses. Frankly I'd even accept that, albeit for purely selfish reasons as I'm not a fan of GNOME 3. Unfortunately many of the other window managers rely on GNOME to fill the gaps in their own efforts, including the one I use on my laptop.

This doesn't feel like we are being offered a choice.

SIGHUP for "session has gone away", not SIGTERM/SIGKILL

Posted Jun 11, 2016 14:55 UTC (Sat) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> If we could leave it turned off with no repercussions other than our tmux sessions continue to run, there wouldn't be almost 300 posts on LWN about this.

You are, in a word, incorrect.

SIGHUP for "session has gone away", not SIGTERM/SIGKILL

Posted Jun 12, 2016 10:20 UTC (Sun) by micka (subscriber, #38720) [Link] (1 responses)

> there wouldn't be almost 300 posts on LWN about this

Slowly reading through them. From what I've read up until now two thirds are from 3 or 4 persons. I'm not sure what you can deduce from the number of comments except that there are very talkative commenters.

SIGHUP for "session has gone away", not SIGTERM/SIGKILL

Posted Jun 17, 2016 16:01 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

:-)

Certain topics press certain buttons. Gnome brings out one set of posters.Systemd brings out another (and I've noticed systemd tends to attract troll accounts I've never seen before ...)

And databases? Well that tends to get me going :-) It's all about what matters to people. And some people just enjoy sitting in the peanut gallery lobbing rotten tomatoes ... :-)

Cheers,
Wol