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:developerWorks: Signals as a Linux Debugging Tool
developerWorks: Signals as a Linux Debugging Tool
Dec 14, 2006, 05 :30 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (3818 reads)

(Other stories by Madhavan Srinivasan)

[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for this link. ]

"Signals are software interrupts that send information about an occurrence of an asynchronous event to an executing program, or process. Signals are generated for a variety of reasons such as timer expiration. Most hardware traps--illegal instructions, access to invalid addresses, and so on--are converted to signals.

"Signals can be generated by the process itself, or they can be sent from one process to another. A variety of signals can be generated or delivered, and they have many uses for programmers..."

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