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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Under what conditions are unix (Mac OS ) sytem calls restarted after getting interrupted by a signal ? What do the man page mean by "calls committed"?
I'm reading a book on unix systems and I'm at the part where signals are discussed. I'm a bit confused when it comes to what happens when a system call is running and a signal is received.
It says ...
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When is mandatory send SIGINT programmatically?
I know the recommendable way to terminate a foreground process is through the SIGTERM signal, it because it gives the opportunity to the process itself to clean/release resources. This signal only can ...
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What is correct or suggested approach to send the signal name through 'kill' command?
I read many tutorials about the use of kill command, mostly 3 approaches
kill -15 <pid>
kill -SIGTERM <pid>
kill -TERM <pid>
For scripts purposes and for portability with macos too, ...
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Why are the signal lists for kill, killall and pkill not the same?
I researched the kill, pkill and killall commands, and I understood most of their differences. However, I am confused about their signals:
If I run kill -l, I see:
1) SIGHUP 2) SIGINT 3) ...
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What signal do bg and fg send?
I know that ctrl + z changes a process from foreground to background - as suspended - through SIGTSTP. I am able to re-run that background suspended process through either fg or bg as required.
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Signal while SIGSTOP is active
What happens if a process gets a signal after it was stopped by SIGSTOP?
I am trying to understand and get a good picture of how this is handled. Unfortunately, all I could find was a short ...
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Signals table in /proc/[PID]
I am trying to overwrite or change the Signals of a process. As I guess there is a table of signals in every process separately.
Is there anything like that in the /proc folder?
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which signal will caused "wait_event_interruptible" interrupted?
There are wait_event_interruptible in a driver to wait until message is aviliable.But this function was interrupted by a signal.
I find out this in manpage:
The function will return -ERESTARTSYS if ...
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Why does a command with a non-zero exit status send an ERR signal even when it is “part of a && or || list”?
man bash includes this documentation for using trap:
trap [-lp] [[arg] sigspec ...]
…
The ERR trap is not executed if the failed command is part of the command list
immediately following a ...
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Can coredump handler mess up process exit code?
I have a program that installs a handler to log backtrace on fatal signals (SIGSEGV, SIGABRT and a couple others). The signal handler does
void signalHandler(int signum)
{
signal(signum, SIG_DFL);
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Zsh: bind a key to run another command while a zsh script is in foreground
Zsh keybindings seem to work only when the shell is waiting for a command after the prompt. When a zsh script is launched, it cares about reading inputs only when a command like read is encountered, ...
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Xlib: what is the best implementation of GUI digital clock?
I am making an X application which contains a digital clock. The clock displays the current time in the format of "hh:mm". I want to master Xlib, so I want to use only Xlib (no other ...
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How to kill all background and spawned processes of a bash script in its pre-exit handler?
I'm using the wait -n technique to perform max_jobs parallel tasks:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
cleanup() {
echo "cleaning up..."
}
trap "cleanup" EXIT
do_task() {
echo "...
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When terminal emulator exits, why does shell also exits?
When I start a terminal emulator (for example, qterminal), it starts the default shell (for example, bash). And when I quit the terminal (for example, by clicking the x button or by killing the ...
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Why must a handler be defined for sigsuspend to return?
I'm working on a school assignment where I'm sending signals between two processes. Process 1 sends a signal to process 2, and then process 2 sends SIGUSR1 back to process 1 to acknowledge the ...
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Why does 'ping' not output a summary when redirecting output?
I can ping google.com for several seconds and when I press Ctrl + C, a brief summary is displayed at the bottom:
$ ping google.com
PING google.com (74.125.131.113) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ...
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Send signal to process in tmux pane
Suppose that app X is running in the foreground in tmux pane. I'd like to send a given signal, e.g. SIGUSR1, to app X. Can I configure a tmux keybinding to send a signal to the currently-selected pane'...
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Prevent the line `load:... cmd:... running ...` upon SIGINFO
Issuing SIGINFO (e.g. by pressing ^T) while a terminal process is running usually results in a printout of a line
load: 2.93 cmd: sleep 7826 waiting 0.00u 0.00s
If I have written the tool that's ...
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Which signal (like SIGINT or SIGTERM) can a process get when system is going to reboot?
My application needs to do something before exit, I have already handled the ctrl-c case by handling signal of SIGINT, but I'd also like to handle the case when the system is going to reboot.
I ...
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Why is it necessary to block a signal before sigwait()'ing it?
In APUE, chapter 12 page 454, it is mentioned that:
To avoid erroneous behavior, a thread must block the signals it is waiting for ...
The similar is said in the standard:
The signals defined by ...
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Specific behavior of timers with sigev_notify = SIGSTOP signal
Timer doesn't send signal when the time period between timer expiration and SIGCONT delivering is at least two times longer than value in itimerspec.
I noticed that it also happens with other "...
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How to split a stream to two binaries with retry?
I have a binary that produces an audio stream in s16le format. I want to split this stream to two different processes, but I don't want the command to exit and interrupt process 1 if process 2 errors. ...
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Proper way to wrap dash using rlwrap
On Ubuntu, I have set alias sh='rlwrap --complete-filenames sh' to get readline keybindings and filename completion when using the dash shell (on my computer, sh is /usr/bin/sh, which is a symbolic ...
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Intercepting system signal as a strategy to prevent kill calls from taking effect
As a follow up to this question, I am correct that (4) (quote below) is the farthest I can get ?
in my app (a .NET app which runs as a systemd daemon), intercept the kernel signal sent to the process ...
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Looking for a general split+merge syntax for IO streams
I often want to perform an operation that requires
splitting the stdout of a pipeline (let's call it pipeline-before) into two parallel streams;
feeding the resulting stream, as their stdin, to two ...
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Is signal handling a property of a process or not?
From reading the standard, I understand that:
signal handling is a property shared by all threads of a process;
signal mask is a per-thread property.
However, the standard list the following (In ...
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Use of SEGV signal
As far as I understand, a SEGV signal is sent by the OS to inform a process that it has attempted an illegal memory access.
But I noticed that it is also possible to send a SEGV signal to a process ...
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xterm loss of focus signals vim to exit input mode?
I've been using xterm on a KDE desktop for many years, on one Debian/Ubuntu/Arbian release after another. I use the focus-follows-mouse desktop setting, and ":set mouse=a" in .vimrc. ...
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How to detach from dtach when the detach character is disabled
I am using dtach like this: dtach -A /tmp/mysession -Ez bash. This starts bash. Now, how do I detach from dtach? I have disabled the detach character using the -E option, so I cannot press Ctrl\ to ...
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Cannot stop docker-compose logs -f with CTRL + C any more
docker-compose logs -f is a useful command to view the logs of containers in the background and follow them to see new entries immediately. It seems that with the latest stable V2.1.0 it's not ...
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Get signal which terminated last command [duplicate]
I'm attempting to switch from fish to zsh. One of the features of fish I like is how it will display the signal name in PS1 if the last command was terminated by a signal. Is there a way to do this ...
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Shell, traps, signals and conditional cleanup
I have a script running qemu-system in background (-daemonize) and have to clean up (kill) running qemu-system once foreground process completes. Same time I have NOT to clean up (kill) running qemu-...
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SIGSTOP and SIGCONT and the bash choosing how to respond to them
I'm reading the documentation on the freezer-subsystem and I came across the following example on why SIGSTOP and SIGCONT are not always working as we expect them to:
$ echo $$
16644
$ bash
$ echo $$
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Can't receive CTR-C after changing process group
I have this code:
static void signal_handler(int signum);
int main(void)
{
const struct sigaction sa = {
.sa_handler = signal_handler,
};
sigaction(SIGINT, &sa, NULL);
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SIGHUP strange behavior
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I am running a process from bash without & and any redirection i.e like ./foo. The process is running while(1) i.e it is running forever. Also, the process is ignoring SIGHUP i.e not ...
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How do you turn the exit status of a program into the signal name
pid_t waitpid(pid_t pid, int *status, int options);
For example when the status=2, return the string "SIGINT" when the status=11, return the string "SIGSEGV".
Is there a built_in ...
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Is there an alternative to the kill system call? [closed]
Is there an alternative to the kill system call? An alternative, yet similar system call that can simply send a signal to a process?
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Why PID 1 send SIGTERM
I had this problem for a few days.
A process, in this case qbittorrent, will stop after a few minutes.
Looking at logs it seems that it just caught a SIGTERM.
Alright so I used strace -p {PID} -e '...
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Is it possible to send signals to a command that was entered while another one is running
Sometimes I do make or something in foreground and, while it is executing, I type and enter stuff that I want to do afterwards, such as cd some_other_dirEntermake againEntercd -Enter.
But let's say ...
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Controlling a process that has been moved into a Screen session with Reptyr
I have been experimenting with trying to pull a running process into a screen session with reptyr, as per a number of guides like the following, and which also generally seems to work fairly reliably ...
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What is the real reason why nohup ./a.out dies when SSH session times out?
When you run ./a.out in a terminal over SSH, and then the SSH session times out, ./a.out is killed. Why is this? Some say that it's because of SIGHUP. But running nohup ./a.out still has the same ...
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__USE_POSIX and VS Code in WSL distro
I'm learning C and in general I code with VS Code in Ubuntu. For convenience, I'm trying to migrate my learning materials to Windows where a lot of my other works happen, so I installed WSL 2 and its ...
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How to gracefully kill (like normal close) Google Chrome (over SSH)?
I am running a "TV laptop" - just a low-powered laptop connected to a TV with one single purpose, to run a live TV stream from Google Chrome on Ubuntu MATE 20.04.2 LTS.
The first thing I ...
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Internals of signal handling
I have been studying this excellent Caltech lecture regarding the signal delivery mechanism, which talks about how current process state (stack, RIP etc) at the time of the signal generation is copied,...
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Is it possible to force a program that ignores signals to quit on ctrl-C?
I have a program that ignores SIGINT but that I want to run in the foreground. I would like to find a way to force it to close on Ctrl-C. Is there any way to write a wrapper (that you'd call ./wrapper....
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Why I can't send SIGRTMAX-9 signal with kill command?
I have a bash script running in the background and wanted to send the SIGRTMAX-9 signal to it.
SIGRTMAX-* case
Why kill command doesn't recognize the SIGRTMAX-9 signal?
╭─ /tmp/tmp.KHFbrCQhOB ...
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Should POSIX shell support SIGPOLL signal?
I have never used POLL signal, but it is listed as some signal that has default action to do abnormal termination of the process:
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/signal.h....
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why crtl-C or ctrl-Z is not working in this program?
during this process is running i am trying to stop it by Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Z but any of this is not working.
#include <stdio.h>
void main(void)
{
process();
}
void process(void)
{
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Does the "reboot" command log me out of the shell or does it forcefully terminate it?
Under Linux, if I issue a reboot command from the shell, what is the sequence of events that lead to the shell (e.g. bash) disconnecting?
I think it's one of the following, but not sure which:
It log ...
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Ignore SIGHUP with trap while still being able to receive output and send input
So i already know one can ignore HUP by doing:
trap "command" HUP
but since that completely background the process, is it possible to do the same but still being able to send input to said ...
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