[Tutor] finally without try or except

[Hugo Arts]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Prasad, Ramit <ramit.prasad at jpmorgan.com>wrote:

> [snip]
>
> > >> This will be the most robust as it will
> > >> also work for cases where the program is terminated without the use of
> > >> the keyboard (i.e. kill -9, task manager, computer reboot, etc.)  but
> >
> > That unfortunately is not so. kill -9 does *not* send a signal or raise
> an
> > exception. It just kills the process dead, instantly and without warning.
>
> Does a plain kill send a signal or do you need to use an option
> like SIGHUP?
>
>
kill is supposed to always send a signal. Without options it will send the
process SIGTERM, which indicates to the process it should terminate. kill
-9 sends SIGKILL, which is kind of special since it is a signal that never
really arrives at the process itself. When the kernel notices the SIGKILL
it will just kill the process.

Hugo
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