[BRLTTY] Termination of BRLTTY

[Sebastian Humenda]

Hi Dave,

Dave Mielke schrieb am 10.08.2016,  6:54 -0400:
>[quoted lines by Sebastian Humenda on 2016/08/10 at 10:55 +0200]
>
>>-What is the correct way to terminate a BRLTTY process? I have noticed that
>>using `systemctl stop brltty` will print "BRLTTY terminated" on my display, but
>>`killall brltty` will not. Is there another signal to send?
>>I'm asking because sometimes I'm starting BRLTTY by hand and would like to
>>terminate it afterwards.
>
>The best signal to use is TERM.
Thanks.

[...]
>There are command line options to make this a lot easier. Use -P (uppercase) 
>when starting brltty so that it'll create a .pid file:
>
>   brltty -P /run/brltty.pid
>
>Then, to terminate brltty, specify the same pid file along with -C (uppercase):
>
>   brltty -P /run/brltty.pid -C
Is there any advantage, despite that I'll terminate the correct BRLTTY? I'm
experiencing a lock of the keyboard after a restart, would that be more likely
with the TERM signal?

Thanks!
Sebastian
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