what is SIGHUP signal?

[Jax]

Is it like a kill command or something?

Thanks

[Chem-R-Us]

Jax wrote:
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> Is it like a kill command or something?

It is SIGnal HangUP, the computer equivalent of hanging up the phone.

Look at: /usr/src/linux/include/signal.h

To learn about the various signals.

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[Jax]

Thanks

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> Jax wrote:
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> > Is it like a kill command or something?
>

[Jose Moreno Andrades]

you can send a process several signals, which can be referred by numbers
or names, when you do kill <pid>, you are sending signal 9 by default,
which terminates the process inmediately;

there are several ways of killing a process, letting it close cleanly
(signal 15), terminate and start again (1 or SIGHUP)...

you may ask: man kill, man signal and the references therein to learn
more, sorry but just now I haven't any linux box available to seek it
for you!

hope it helped!

Jax wrote:

> Is it like a kill command or something?
>
> Thanks

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