easy question about kill command

[Roman Gorohov.]

Çäðàâñòâóéòå, Joseph.

Âû ïèñàëè 16 ??????? 2005 ?., 11:41:25:

>> Is there anyone who can explain me, why when i say 'kill -HUP >
>> id', and its failed to restart, kill say nothing?
>> It is such an easy to implement...

> Your application could be choosing to ignore SIGHUP
> (restarting on SIGHUP is a convention, not a OS defined
> requirement)?

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No, I meant, if it fail to restart due to configuration error.
When I reconfigure some daemon, and then want to restart it that way,
I have to check, if it running after killing. So question was, why kill
command don't check it itself?

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