SIGINT vs SIGTERM: does it matter?

[Jeffrey 'jf' Lim]

Just wondering: looking at the docs for the behaviour when consul
encounters a SIGINT vs a SIGTERM
(https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#skip_leave_on_interrupt
vs https://www.consul.io/docs/agent/options.html#leave_on_terminate),
it seems like the behaviour is the same: if in client-mode, leave
before quitting; and if in server-mode, do not leave before quitting.
Therefore, does it matter whether I use a SIGINT or a SIGTERM to kill
a consul process?

I ask because I saw one sample systemd file where an explicit
'KillSignal=SIGINT' is specified (systemd's default is SIGTERM).

-jf

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[James Phillips]

Hi, you are correct that they land in essentially the same code path -
https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/master/command/agent/command.go#L1193-L1204.

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[Jeffrey 'jf' Lim]

thank you James. Very helpful!

-jf