How does "kill -QUIT process_id" work?

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I'm just curious. The man page for kill says that QUIT, aka signal # 3, is a "core" signal. It seems that all it does, for Java processes, is dump the thread information. So, is the QUIT as misnomer? Is it just that the JVM implements a singal 3 handler that dumps threads?

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