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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 7:54:52 pm | by BenStaz | Revert |
| Older page: | version 5 | Last edited on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 7:41:00 pm | by BenStaz | Revert |
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quit = [SIGQUIT]
kill = [SIGKILL]
susp = [SIGSTOP]
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+Some people have a misconception that CTRL-S and CTRL-Q send a [SIGSTOP] and [SIGCONT] signal respectively.
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+This is not the case!
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+CTRL-S and CTRL-Q are used to control the flow of output to the terminal. CTRL-S tells the system not to send any more data to the screen until a CTRL-Q is pressed. You can use these to control fast scrolling output.
Here are a couple of pages that show how to code for signals:<br>
http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/signals/signals-programming.html<br>
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Signal-Handling.html
