signal names

created by anomie
(thing) by anomie (6.2 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Fri May 05 2000 at 5:28:28
The Unix command kill sends a signal to a process. You may specify which to send by signal number or signal name, e.g. kill -9 or kill -KILL.

You can get the list with the kill -l command, which will give you output something like this:

 1) SIGHUP       2) SIGINT      3) SIGQUIT       4) SIGILL
 5) SIGTRAP      6) SIGABRT     7) SIGBUS        8) SIGFPE
 9) SIGKILL     10) SIGUSR1    11) SIGSEGV      12) SIGUSR2
13) SIGPIPE     14) SIGALRM    15) SIGTERM      17) SIGCHLD
18) SIGCONT     19) SIGSTOP    20) SIGTSTP      21) SIGTTIN
22) SIGTTOU     23) SIGURG     24) SIGXCPU      25) SIGXFSZ
26) SIGVTALRM   27) SIGPROF    28) SIGWINCH     29) SIGIO
30) SIGPWR      31) SIGSYS

If you interpret signal names literally, things can get interesting...

Y'know, if you log in, you can write something here, or contact authors directly on the site. Create a New User if you don't already have an account.