[HECnet] PyDECnet setup

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Thu Nov 18 10:39:39 PST 2021


On 11/18/21 1:04 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> The use of SIGHUP to reread a config file
> comes from, at least, Unix 5th Edition.  I
> suspect that the practice originated with the
> `init` process (usually PID 1) which, on receipt
> of SIGHUP, would reread the ttys file to figure
> out what typewriters were attached to the
> system.
   Q. What's the difference between "kill -1 1" and "kill 1 1"?
   A. A trip to work at 2AM.

         -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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