Where goes signal sent to process which called system?

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Published on 2010-06-16T01:49:45Z Indexed on 2010/06/16 1:52 UTC
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Given a very simple ruby script:

child = fork do
  system 'sleep 10000'
end

5.times do
  sleep 1
  puts "send kill to #{child}"
  Process.kill("QUIT", child)
end

QUIT signal is just lost. Where does it go? Something with default handler which just ignores it?

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