Otherwise the statistics won't be printed.
Before:
# ping -4 localhost <PID 1234> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.001 ms Quit
In another terminal:
# kill -SIGQUIT 1234
After:
# ping -4 localhost <PID 1234> PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.001 ms --- localhost ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.001/0.001/0.001/0.000 ms
In another terminal:
# kill -SIGQUIT 1234
Obtained from: Darwin