[Gimp-developer] Re: "Cancel" function and plugins

[Sven Neumann]

Hi,

On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 09:36 +0100, Toby Speight wrote:

> Sven> Well, in theory it could catch the signal and clean up before it
> Sven> exits.
> 
> No, SIGKILL can't be caught by a process.

The plug-in receives a QUIT message on the wire before it is being
killed. Probably not trivial to do the right thing in response to that
message, but it could be done.


Sven