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Decode Flags for Kill Command

I am new to Shell Scripting. I saw this Command on a Book for Linux shell Scripting $ kill -HUP 1234 >killout.txt 2>killerr.txt I know what the command does, but i am not able to understand ...
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System sending SIGTERM and SIGKILL during normal work

I have a program (C++) that works with TCP sockets in multithreaded manner. The multithreading is intensive, about 100 threads (POSIX threads). Sometimes, not quite sure when, the program gets ...
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Busybox exits instantly printing 'SIGUSR1'

I was tinkering with my router these days. It runs on MIPS core and the OS is based on Linux. But the builtin busybox is very limited. I managed to export a binary of busybox compiled for MIPS through ...
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How are signals implemented in Linux?

When one process sends a signal to another process, does receiving process wait until it is rescheduled to run? So if every 1 ms we choose one process to run, does that mean the latency from ...
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SSH session pauses mid datastream; resumes with a keypress

I've had this problem occur at random, intermittently, across boxes at multiple companies, multiple distros, and multiple kernel revs. I think that I'm just cursed. What happens is that I'll have a ...
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when does the system send a SIGTERM to a process?

My server program received a SIGTERM and stopped (with exit code 0). I am surprised by this, as I am pretty sure that there was plenty of memory for it. Under what conditions does linux (busybox) send ...