15 Nov
2017
15 Nov
'17
2:11 a.m.
On Tue, 14 Nov 2017, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Dan,
I think 9 has ties to "pain", but the number that has connection to
"death" in Japanese is 4 (四 shi, "four", which sounds like 死 shi,
"death").
-嘘.
Is the reason that SIGKILL has the numeric value
9
If you look at signals 1 to 8 they could all be caught, etc.
9 was added so to thwart this and just took the next number AFAIK.
Doesn't 9 have tie-ins to "death" in Japan? ISTR some marketing
avoiding it in version numbers.