Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH libnbd] api: New nbd_kill_command API for sending a signal to the command subprocess.
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 03:19:23PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
This looks a bit funny until I read the docs at [1]. When using
kill(2), I'm used to the function call 'kill(pid, 0)' probing for
process existence. But on the command line, kill(1) has the behavior of
sending SIGTERM by default when you omit a signal number (and not
serving as a process existence probe).
The reason for this choice is that in some language bindings we might
not have the SIG* symbols available, but there ought to still be a way
to send a default. Hopefully people will read the docs :-)
I pushed it with s/signal/signum/.
Are we waiting on any other ABI breaks or would now be a good time to
do another 0.x release?
Rich.
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