Here is the complete list of SunOS signals (as reported by "kill -l"), with possible uses for each. Some I'm discounting as "not useful" (for Perl programs), but it ain't necessarily so... =over 4 =item HUP Prodding daemons, dealing with loss of interactivity =item INT, QUIT, TERM (#15, presented out of sequence!) Exiting nicely =item ILL, TRAP, ABRT, EMT, FPE, KILL, BUS, SEGV, SYS Not useful in Perl =item PIPE I/O =item ALRM, VTALRM? (#28, presented out of sequence) Alarm, discussed in other messages =item USR1, USR2 Prodding =item CHLD Child process reaping =item LOST Power fail? (Can anything be made of this?) =item WINCH curses programs (though curses can handle *some* of the reconfiguration issues) =item URG, IO I/O =item STOP, TSTP, CONT, TTIN, TTOU, PROF, XCPU, XFSZ, WAITING, LWP Not useful in Perl. TSTP might be useful in curses programs, though terminal resetting can be achieved by the library itself. =back I can see these issues from the list: =over 4 =item I/O =item Prodding daemons =item Process management =item Exit cleanups =item Text-window cleanups (also related to above) =item Timers =back -- Ariel Scolnicov |"GCAAGAATTGAACTGTAG" | ariels@compugen.co.il Compugen Ltd. |Tel: +972-2-5713025 (Jerusalem) \ We recycle all our Hz 72 Pinhas Rosen St. |Tel: +972-3-7658117 (Main office)`--------------------- Tel-Aviv 69512, ISRAEL |Fax: +972-3-7658555 http://3w.compugen.co.il/~arielsThread Previous | Thread Next