In article <v0311070bb0c3cd07b103@[198.68.110.2]> fair@clock.org (Erik E. Fair) writes:
>In the 4BSD universe, you kill 1, and init sends SIGTERM to everything on
>the system. Programs that need to clean up after themselves are expected to
>catch SIGTERM and do whatever they need to do within about 15-30 seconds.
>After that, init blasts the stragglers with SIGKILL, and if they still
>don't die, it prints a warning on the console.
>
>So, your "shutdown action" should be written in the code, to be run at SIGTERM.
>
>	Erik <fair@clock.org>

This in my opinion sucks about the BSD universe... At the very least
the grace period should be configurable.

christos