[Geany-Devel] spawn_kill_process TERM or KILL?

[Dimitar Zhekov]

Hi, all,

Should spawn_kill_process send a SIGTERM or SIGKILL to the child under *nix?

- SIGTERM lets the child exit gracefully, removing temporary files etc.

- the original build.c:kill_process from Geany <= 1.24 sends SIGTERM

- the child may refuse to terminate on SIGTERM (or be unable to respond 
to it because of blocking I/O)

- under Windows, TerminateProcess() is an equivalent of SIGKILL, not SIGTERM

- the API name is "kill", not terminate.

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E-gards: Jimmy