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# 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.

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