echo will not be seen during shutdown

I meant your echo system-call with redirection to the file.

I'm actually looking into the possibility that I realized only after I posted: I am running the program in a console and then

But still as a daemon? The console-shell being shut-down wont kill a daemonized prozess... (daemon, is that the correct spelling?)

Re: 'clean-later' marks: I thought it is best to do as little as possible inside a signal-handler because of problems with re-entrant system calls - that's why I set the global and do the clean-up work later. Am I wrong in this?

I guess you may be right under 'normal' circumstances, but a fatal signal like kill is, well, fatal; you either react or you don't, just setting a mark and going ahead won't work in the generell case, because your programm will likely be killed/terminated (as signaled) before it can check this mark (compare robartes post).

regards,
tomte

Hlade's Law:

If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person --
they will find an easier way to do it.

Edit: fixed typo

In reply to Re: Re: Re: (slightly OT) catching SIGTERM when system goes down by Tomte
in thread (slightly OT) catching SIGTERM when system goes down by edan

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