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- From: bengsig@dk.oracle.com (Bjorn Engsig)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Resume a suspended process
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.081500.23988@dk.oracle.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 08:15:00 GMT
- References: <1992Aug24.142616.2640@nrcnet0.nrc.ca> <1992Aug25.125931.20033@nrcnet0.nrc.ca>
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- Article <1992Aug25.125931.20033@nrcnet0.nrc.ca> by ng@nrccsb19.di.nrc.ca says:
- |Isn't is bizaar to resume a process using the kill command?
- Well, maybe yes. The reason is that the system call to send signals is called
- kill() and not signal(). The signal() system call is used to register signal
- handlers. So it's really for historical reasons that kill has it's name.
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