From Fedora: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/scim-bridge/c/0532ab48617e02f5bfb1edaba17b22e88d9beaf4 Index: scim-bridge-0.4.16/agent/scim-bridge-agent-signal-listener.cpp =================================================================== --- scim-bridge-0.4.16.orig/agent/scim-bridge-agent-signal-listener.cpp +++ scim-bridge-0.4.16/agent/scim-bridge-agent-signal-listener.cpp @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ static void sig_quit (int sig) { if (!signal_occurred) { signal_occurred = true; - send (pipe_in, '\0', sizeof (char), MSG_NOSIGNAL); + send (pipe_in, "", sizeof (char), MSG_NOSIGNAL); } }