After starting from command line bitocoind, it can require minutes to have bitocoind to be real responsive, for example:
`$ ./bitcoin-cli stop`
`error: {"code":-28,"message":"Activating best chain..."}`

In such situation, I had sometimes to "kill -9" bitcoind to stop it.
I would like to be able to stop bitcoind in clean way.

p.s.:
`$ uname -a`
`Darwin isghe.local 14.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.4.0: Thu May 28 11:35:04 PDT 2015; root:xnu-2782.30.5~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64`

LOCK(cs_main);
    CNodeState *state = State(nodeid);
    if (state == NULL)
        return false;
    stats.nMisbehavior = state->nMisbehavior;
    stats.nSyncHeight = state->pindexBestKnownBlock ? state->pindexBestKnownBlock->nHeight : -1;
    stats.nCommonHeight = state->pindexLastCommonBlock ? state->pindexLastCommonBlock->nHeight : -1;
    BOOST_FOREACH(const QueuedBlock& queue, state->vBlocksInFlight) {
        if (queue.pindex)
            stats.vHeightInFlight.push_back(queue.pindex->nHeight);
    }
    return true;
}
void RegisterNodeSignals(CNodeSignals& nodeSignals)
{
    nodeSignals.GetHeight.connect(&GetHeight);
    nodeSignals.ProcessMessages.connect(&ProcessMessages);
    nodeSignals.SendMessages.connect(&SendMessages);
    nodeSignals.InitializeNode.connect(&InitializeNode);
    nodeSignals.FinalizeNode.connect(&FinalizeNode);
}
void UnregisterNodeSignals(CNodeSignals& nodeSignals)