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Two points about OS:

To send a signal to a process group, you have to be a super user;
Most of OS's, if not all, does not let you capture SIGTERM for ordinary users. That's for a good reason, if some processes (intentionally or by mistake - bugs) decide to be alive forever, that will really be a nightmare.
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