[PLUG] Shell command needs an explanation

Chris Jantzen chris at maybe.net
Sun Aug 8 16:18:01 UTC 2004


On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 04:10:24PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   The other two signals are TERM and HUP. The first halts the parent process
> and the second restarts the parent process _now_.

Oh, and HUP officially means the terminal hung up (as in over a
landline). It is *often* interpreted to mean "restart", but not all
processes will honor it (nor will they always interpret it as
"_now_").

-- 
chris kb7rnl =->
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