The K Desktop Environment

Chapter 4. Signals

These are the signals as explained on the manual page of signal(7). For details consult the manual page by typing:

 % man 7 signal

4.1. POSIX Signals

The following signals are defined by POSIX and can be sent by Kpm:

SIGHUP

Hangup detected on controlling terminal, or death of controlling process.

SIGINT

Interrupt from keyboard.

SIGQUIT

Quit from keyboard.

SIGILL

Illegal Instruction.

SIGABRT

Abort signal from abort(3).

SIGFPE

Floating point exception.

SIGKILL

Kill signal.

SIGSEG

Invalid memory reference.

SIGPIPE

Broken pipe: wrote to pipe with no readers.

SIGALRM

Timer signal from alarm(1).

SIGTERM

Termination signal.

SIGUSR1

User-defined signal 1.

SIGUSR2

User-defined signal 2.

SIGCHLD

Child stopped or terminated.

SIGCONT

Continue if stopped.

SIGSTOP

Stop process.

SIGTSTP

Stop sent from tty.

SIGTTIN

tty input for background process.

SIGTTOU

tty output for background process.