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SIGKILL in xscreensaver

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue May 2 05:16:58 1989

Date: Tue, 2 May 89 05:16:58 EDT
From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@Athena.MIT.EDU>
To: jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: John T Kohl's message of Tue, 18 Apr 89 11:36:20 EDT <8904181536.AA12734@LYCUS.MIT.EDU>
   Date: Tue, 18 Apr 89 11:36:20 EDT
   From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
   X-Us-Snail: MIT Room E40-351, 1 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

   Sending a SIGKILL to the forked process is a nice way to guarantee
   that the saving process can't clean up.

   SIGTERM would be much nicer.

   John

Agreed.  Fixed.


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