Comments on: Signalling for your process’s attention http://blog.superuser.com/2011/04/13/signalling-for-your-processs-attention/ The Super User Community Blog Mon, 05 Dec 2016 07:34:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.6 By: sch http://blog.superuser.com/2011/04/13/signalling-for-your-processs-attention/#comment-917944 Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:25:42 +0000 http://blog.superuser.com/?p=1638#comment-917944 CTRL-Z/CTRL-C/CTRL-\… causes a signal sent to a process group (the foreground process group of the terminal) or job in shell terminology, not necessarily a single process. Many jobs start several processes (typical case is a pipeline like foo | bar). Note that the actual characters that causes a SIGINT/SIGTSTP/SIGQUIT don’t have to be ^C/^Z/^\ and are configurable (through ioctls to the tty device or the stty command). In earlier Unices, they were different characters (@ and \).

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