Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:

>   Well, during shutdown the kernel first sends SIGTERM to all running
> processes, after which it sends SIGKILL to the remaining. I suppose in
> most cases there aren't any processes running after the former (at least
> if all processes are bug-free and behave correctly) but it's a good way
> to make sure that all processes are truely terminated before shutdown.


Warp, would you be able to point me to a link documenting this behavior?
I'm interested in reading more about the general boot/shutdown order of
things.  I assume not all flavors of Unix/Linux implement the same
proceedures in the same order, do they?

- How

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