From: Roger Pack <rogerdpack@...>
Date: 2009-12-18T09:35:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:27212] Re: unable to send signal "EXIT"

> "EXIT" is special pseudo signal to trap program termination.
> So, you can use it for Signal.trap, but not to invoke by
> the name.

Interestingly, you can send a 0

>> Process.kill 0, 3752
=> 1

and it works as expected (after process 3752 goes away, sending 0
results in an exception, as it should).

>> Process.kill "EXIT", 3752
ArgumentError: unsupported name `SIGEXIT'


I wonder if something couldn't be done to clean up this messy edge case...
Thoughts?
-r