[LIP] Sending TERM, and signal handler issue.

Hi,

I have a process `foo,' which runs along with its 10 children. Now,
foo.c has an handler for SIGTERM, which first reaps its children, and
then goes off.

foo is started and stopped from a startup script, in runlevel 3. This 
script has the typical `kill -TERM <foo_pid>,' to kill foo. foo
handles this TERM and does a proper cleanup. This script when executed 
on command line executes fine...

...but when my system is shutting down - I run into real trouble. It
seems that the `kill' never actually kills foo, and the shutdown
script goes in a loop trying to kill it (I have the loop put there.)

Also, while executing it from the command line, I see that the kill is
being done three to four times, before foo actually goes down.

I suspect some issue with the way foo handles SIGTERM. Can someone
confirm this ? foo is a part of legacy code.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,
Amar

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