No way to specify signal to send

[juancampa]

Is there a way to specify the signal to send to the process?

I understand that fkill is multi-platform but at least in Unix environment people regularly use both TERM and KILL, and possibly others like HUP

[kevva]

Why do you need it?

[juancampa]

Sometimes programs intercept SIGTERM and don't really die, so you need to send SIGKILL (i.e. kill -9 <pid>). It's the difference of pressing the "Quit" button vs the "Force Quit" in macOS

[juancampa]

SIGHUP is typically used to make a daemon reload its settings (e.g. prometheus/prometheus#1572)

[juancampa]

This might be out of scope of fkill but I'd suggest it works like this:

• $ fkill
• find the process you want to kill
• either:
  • press enter to send SIGTERM (just like it works today)
  • press tab to go to a different menu where you can select the signal, and press enter to send it

[kevva]

If you're using --force it'll use SIGKILL. But I suppose we could allow the user to specify whichever signal they want to use behind a signal option or something. @sindresorhus, what do you think?

[sindresorhus]

This CLI is for killing processes. Sending different signals is out of scope. We already support the most common use-case by killing normally or with --force. And in interactive mode, if killing a process fails, we offer to do it with force (SIGKILL).