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Re: Better way to restart the Dock
Authored by: Anonymous on Apr 12, '01 07:34:26PM

I heard this somewhere else, not sure about it...
Doesn't kill -SIGHUP cause the app in question to quietly quit and restart immediately?



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SIGHUP
Authored by: SeanAhern on May 28, '02 07:44:09PM

Nope. HUP stands for "hangup". Many system apps *are* configured to reread their configuration files when they receive a hangup signal, thus appearing to stop and restart. But not everything is like that.

In general, a HUP signal just causes the app to quit, similar to a TERM.



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