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- From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
- Subject: Re: Hack: Job Control under 7th Edition Unix
- Message-ID: <C6UI69L@taronga.com>
- Organization: Taronga Park BBS
- References: <1992Aug31.042739.29219@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 11:11:10 GMT
- Approved: you should be proud of this!
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- In article <1992Aug31.042739.29219@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> wkt@csadfa.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) writes:
- >Two keys that do affect the execution of a foreground process are Int
- >(usually ^C or DEL), which sends a SIGINT to the process, and
- >Quit (usually ^\), which sends a SIGQUIT to the process. The
- >latter cannot be caught or ignored by the process,
-
- Sure it can. signal(3,-1) in 7th edition terms. It's just usually left
- in default mode. Programs that ignore SIGQUIT won't be stoppable, no?
- Plus setuid programs.
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- Neat hack, anyway. Have to try it on Xenix.
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