Misbehaving exit status from Hotspot

[Florian Weimer]

On 06/29/2018 01:51 AM, David Holmes wrote:
> To be clear, I think the libc advise on this topic is just wrong-headed:
> 
> https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Termination-Signals.html
> 
> "Such a handler should end by specifying the default action for the 
> signal that happened and then reraising it; this will cause the program 
> to terminate with that signal, as if it had not had a handler."
> 
> It's not even self-consistent because it states this for the 
> "termination signals" but when caught some of these signals 
> intentionally do not trigger termination. So following that advice for 
> SIGQUIT would be completely wrong for the JVM!

The advice seems appropriate to me for handlers that lead to 
termination, as generally intended for these signals.  SIGQUIT doesn't 
do that for the JVM, so the advice doesn't apply.  SIGTERM appears to do 
so.  So why not preserve in the information that the process was shut 
down by SIGTERM by reraising the signal?  This might confer useful 
information to the caller.

Thanks,
Florian