Henning Brauer wrote:

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> any software which requires special shutdown handling ist busted.

Sounds fair.
> all processes get a SIGTERM on shutdown. the ones that need to do

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> cleanup before they exit need to install a signal handler for that (and

> in general they do).

Pardon the ignorant question.

By what method is shutdown then forced to wait until said processes have

cleaned up?  Is a response expected by shutdown from the daemon as a

result to sending SIGTERM?
Regards,

-Lars