[vdr] Re: feature request for 1.3

[Guy Roussin <guy.roussin@teledetection.fr>]

Hi Dr. Werner,

I try kill -TERM [vdrpid]. It does the job but
it kill also runvdr (father process) ?

Guy 

"Dr. Werner Fink" a écrit :
> 
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:38:51AM +0200, Guy Roussin wrote:
> > I want to restart vdr from a script without loosing
> > current change of setup.conf (current channel for example)
> > if i make a kill -9 vdr, i loose these current settings.
> 
> kill -9 will definitly kill vdr without running any signal handler.
> In other words:  VDR is not able to catch SIGKILL and to run the
> appropriate handler because the kernel send signal 9 aka SIGKILL
> without raising a signal handler.  Try out kill -TERM.
> 
>       Werner


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