Hi Dan, > 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. -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy