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Thinking I could clean up my files in a SIGINT handler (sopuli.xyz)
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[-] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 day ago

AFAIK kernel itself doesn't send any signals to processes on shutdown/reboot, it just stops executing them. This is a job service manager (e.g. systemd) that terminates processes using SIGTERM before asking kernel to shutdown.

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