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Re:Kill Me Softly – Kill processes in a reliable manner by ad_hominem on Tuesday December 16, 2014 @02:09PM (#8758705)
SIGUSR1 is often caught by applications for their own IPC. SIGQUIT would probably be a safer one to send, but that can also be caught and repurposed. Sending other signal types would definitely have to be opt-in to prevent unintended side effects.
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