Re: Signals SIGSTOP
On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 02:40:16AM +0100, Nuno Almeida wrote:
> I would like to know if this is simply a singularity of Debian, or if
> it's a bug of mine.
>
> When I'm programming in C/C++ to other linux distr. and I make a
> signal trap I can't, and that's absolutly normal, trap the signals 9
> and 17, for SIGKILL and SIGSTOP. On Debian I can catch the SIGSTOP
> signal is this normal? Why the diference?
No this is not normal. According to Eric Troan in Linux Magazine (Feb.
2000), "This signal cannot be caught or ignored; it always stops the
process as soon as it's received." Perhaps you would like to post some
code that shows how you do this. I would bet that it's a bug of yours.
Cheers,
Chris
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