Termination

The standard signal to request graceful termination of a process. Unlike SIGKILL it can be caught and blocked, allowing the process to perform cleanup before exiting. Sent by default when using kill(1) without a signal number.

References

man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal.7.html

In this namespace

← previous SIGSYS Bad system call next → SIGTRAP Trace/breakpoint trap

SIGQUIT SIGSEGV SIGSTKFLT SIGSTOP SIGSYS SIGTERM SIGTRAP SIGTSTP SIGTTIN SIGTTOU SIGURG