Questions tagged [signals]
A signal is a message which can be sent to a running process. Signals can be initiated by programs, users, or administrators.
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Signal trap from background job without pressing enter
In Bash 5 I ran into a situation where I want to do the following:
trap 'echo trapped!' USR1
while true; do kill -SIGUSR1 $$; sleep 1; done &
But I have to press enter on keyboard every time the ...
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When a bash process is running in a pseudo-terminal, what will happen when we hit Ctrl-D? [duplicate]
When we hit some key for terminal related signal, such as Ctrl-C, is it correct that it will directly trigger the kernel to send a signal to the foreground process group for the current controlling ...
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how Ctrl + C is working inside the shell
I am reading about interrupts and signals and have problem with understanding the following scenario.
Suppose the shell executing some command, then the shell process doing fork() + wait() ...
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How can I signal a trap in “global” bash scope from function?
I want to execute a trap command in "global" scope, but the signal will come from within function. Of course it is possible to declare the variable globally beforehand or use the -g declare option. ...
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how signals are handled in linux kernel [closed]
My question is about signals and handling them inside the operating system kernel.
I know that every process has it own signal_handler() table: a 31 bit array for signals (pending_signals), and when a ...
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What signal is sent to running programs / scripts on shutdown?
Right now I have the following:
# this function is meant for future script expansions
# its purpose is clear, i.e. to clean up some temp files
# now, it is doing nothing, just a special null command
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Behavior of directly vs indirectly backgrounded children on read
When I do
( sleep 1; read x ; echo x=$x; echo done ) &
then with the default terminal settings, the job gets stopped by SIGTTIN.
If I do
( ( sleep 1; read x ; echo x=$x; echo done ) & )
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How to trigger a command after named pipe closes?
How can I execute some command after the named pipe has been readout in other end. I was trying to use trap. But nothing happens. My script is something like below.
#!/bin/sh
cleanup()
{
echo "...
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Can I safely reduce CPU usage with kill -SIGSTOP?
I have 7 differents workspaces and each of them have a different purpose.
But everything runs in the background... For exemple the workspace 5 with my browser is using CPU even when I'm on workspace ...
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Why doesn't ctrl+u send SIGKILL? stty says it should
I can interrupt a program by pressing ctrl+c in the shell. Often this kills the program but some programs trap the signal and keep running.
I want to be able to kill such programs more aggressively ...
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Does an interactive bash process implicitly send any signal other than SIGHUP to its job?
Does an interactive bash process implicitly send any signal other than SIGHUP to its job? By implicitly, I mean not as a consequence of a user's request to send a signal to a job.
It helps to answer ...
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Why does closing terminal emulator window terminate a bash process with SIGHUP trap changed not to terminate?
In a bash shell in a terminal emulator window of lxterminal, I run
$ trap "echo hello" SIGHUP
$ kill -s HUP $$
hello
$
and then I close the terminal emulator window.
Does closing the terminal ...
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Does ` (sleep 123 &)` remove the process group from bash's job control?
Does the following way
$ (sleep 123 &)
$ jobs
$
remove the process group of sleep 123 from bash's job control? What is the difference between the above way and disown then?
Note that the sleep ...
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Why doesn't the Linux kernel send SIGCONT first and then SIGHUP to a newly orphaned process group containing a stopped process?
APUE says
Since the process group is orphaned when the parent terminates, and the
process group contains a stopped process, POSIX.1 requires that every process in
the newly ...
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Why do we need to send SIGHUP to a newly orphaned process group containing a stopped process?
APUE says
Consider a process that forks a child and then terminates. Although this is nothing
abnormal (it happens all the time), what happens if the child is stopped (using job
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Is it possible to distinguish signal from kernel at reboot and at kill from terminal
As I know, we can send a signal SIGTERM to a process by pressing ctrl+c or by using pkill -f processName.
Also, when we reboot or shutdown, the kernel will send SIGTERM to each process too.
So I'm ...
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How can we tell if a signal can interrupt the execution of a system call?
From The Linux Programming Interface
a signal is delivered at one of the following times:
when the process is rescheduled after it earlier timed out (i.e., at the start of a time slice); or
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How is “some other pending, unblocked signal” involved when a process sends a signal to itself?
Advanced Programming Unix Environment says:
#include <signal.h>
int kill(pid_t pid, int signo);
...
If the call to kill causes the signal to be generated for the
calling process ...
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How is `SIGSEGV` an example of “signals related to the current state of the process be delivered before other signals”? [closed]
APUE says
What happens if more than one signal is ready to be delivered to a process?
POSIX.1 does not specify the order in which the signals are delivered to the ...
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What is a fatal signal?
The Linux Programming Interface says:
TASK_KILLABLE : This state is like TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE , but wakes the process if a fatal signal (i.e., one that would kill the process) is received. By ...
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Does the default action of SIGCONT resume the execution of a stopped process before or after first handling any pending unblocked signals?
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V2_chap02.html#tag_15_04 says:
The default action for SIGCONT is to resume execution at the point where the process was stopped, after ...
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What processes can survive logging out of Linux, and what not?
I am trying to understand what happens when we log out of Linux (Ubuntu specifically):
How does a process initially request/notify the logging out process to perform logging out (by sending some ...
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Catch which user sends kill signal
Say I'm running some script that just sleeps, and another user with admin rights tries to kill my script using pkill. How can I catch which user sent that signal to my process, if such a thing is ...
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Resize window in multi-thread ncurses program
The overall question is simple:
How to gracefully resize a window in a multi-thread ncurses program?
Details here. I have read a few relevant questions (1, 2, 3). From my understanding, there are ...
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Why does the kernel even bother to send SIGKILL? [duplicate]
If a program is not allowed to handle or ignore SIGKILL and SIGSTOP, and must immediately terminate, why does the kernel even send the signal to the program? Can't the kernel simply evict the program ...
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Cannot pass argument through /proc/<pid>/fd/0
I have written a basic C++ program as such:
#include <sstream>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <cstdio>
#include <iostream>
int main(void)
{
int foo;
std::cin >> foo;
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Must SIGKILL (and SIGTERM) be explicitly sent to a specified process?
Reading Gilles' answer,
SIGHUP is about the same as SIGTERM in terms of harshness, but it has a specific role because it's automatically sent to applications running in a terminal when the user ...
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After Receiving an signal, which exception handler invoked first?
Let's say we have a program in C that uses the sleep() function.
The program executes and goes to sleep. Then we type ctrl-c to send a SIGINT signal to the process.
We know that the default action ...
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Process started by script does not receive SIGINT
I am on Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS (AWS)
I am creating a python process via this command:
nohup python -u main.py > nohup.out 2>&1 &
I would like to send a ctrl-c/SIGINT to the process, so I ...
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Is it possible to determine the signal received by last running application?
From a shell, say Bash, is it possible to retrieve the signal number received by the application that most recently finished, if any, in a way that is similar to checking the return code of a process ...
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How to minimize resource usage while process waits to be killed by a signal?
My C++ program does some work, and then waits for a signal to kill it. I'd like to just exit, but exiting sends SIGCHLD to parent process, and I need to control the timing of that.
So currently I do ...
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Is it safe to send SIGUSR1 to a program, and why? [closed]
When you send SIGUSR1 signal (say the signal handler has been set in advance) to a program while it is executing sleep(100), the signal is caught correctly but sleep(100) is terminated just after the ...
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Email sent to root: “Output from from your job 1843” - “Killed”
I run a Sheevaplug (small ARM server) with Debian 9. It does not have any third-party repos enabled in sources.list / sources.list.d.
I have a backup script which runs as root, and uses at. I think ...
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What are some other reasons for process being in D state except performing I/O?
I have been recently asked this question during interview, "What is D state and when does process goes in D state. I explained what D state is and then gave the answer that when the process is ...
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Process continues to run after receiving uncaught SIGINT (Ctrl-C from terminal)
I am trying to interrupt some running processes with Ctrl-C from the terminal in Centos7; some do, some don't.
One of the problematic processes (Process-A) is a GNU makefile with nothing fancy; just ...
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Listen for child process creation/fork
Say I have a process like so:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
node foo.js &
pid=$!
is there a way to listen to child processes that get created from pid?
I want to create a list of pids that get created/...
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How can I make `enscript` block till the printer finishes its job?
The following command will create a pdf file under ~/PDF/:
enscript -B -P PDF bloom.c
I want to move the output pdf file here
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What are potential reason where linux send SIGINT SIGTERM or SIGHUP to a python script that is not user initiated?
I am seeing that my python script in ec2 linux getting terminated for some reason.
I am not sure why and how to debug it.
I tried sending the output of nohup to a file
nohup python my_script.py >...
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Illegal instruction (core dumped) after running executable
I have two PCs (PC1 and PC2) running Linux Mint 18. I compiled a repository and had built an executable on one PC1, and it ran with no problem.
I installed Linux Mint 18 on the other PC2, and tried ...
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How to send SIGINT to multiple processes
I am trying to send the SIGINT signal to multiple processes, I think this is right:
kill -2 <pid1> <pid2> ... <pid3>
but I cannot confirm that...
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Why application does not run from SCREEN without delay?
Suppose we need to run application in screen and keep it running when screen exits. The following command does the job, but only if "sleep 1" is appended to it. Why it does not work without "sleep 1"?
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Why do strace and ltrace cause EINTR to happen?
Consider this program:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/epoll.h>
int main(void) {
int epfd = epoll_create1(0);
struct epoll_event event;
event.events = EPOLLIN;
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Terminal that sends CTRL+C to tty, when I click CTRL+B
I use Linux Mint with 'Terminal GNOME'.
I want to use CTRL+C in terminal to copy text. Easy.. I set it in Preferences, but I also need to send somehow 'intr' signal to apps.
I want to make terminal ...
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Script error handling: need to report segfault in script run by ssh
I wrote a cron job, which uses ssh to run a script on a server. I just tried running the script, and now I am unhappy.
client# ssh server.local /usr/local/bin/script
client#
server# /usr/local/bin/...
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Background process (postgresql) receiving SIGINT from Ctrl-C in shell
I wrote a shell.nix file to build the development environment for one of my projects. I'm using a shellHook to ensure a postgresql server is started when you drop into the nix-shell.
The shellHook is ...
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How to properly handle SIGINT for both the interactive and non-interactive Bash scripts?
Backgound
I have read a post about handling of SIGINT signal, but I still don't understand how to properly handle it in code which will be sourced and used by both the interactive and non-interactive ...
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How does systemd stop services that don't have a unit file
Systemd can inherit orphaned processes, and there are other ways a service can be running without having a unit file for the given service. I want to know what the catch-all is for services that don'...
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How to trap INT signal infinitely many times?
I'm piping output of an interactive command (ghci) through sed-based script to add some colors:
ghci | colorize.sh
where colorize.sh is something like:
#!/bin/bash
trap '' INT
sed '...some pattern.....
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Set signal mask of child process in Bash
Here's my problem - I'm trying to write a small wrapper script that adds a command line argument when Xorg is called (I don't have access to the caller's source.) It seemed simple enough, but the ...
