Knoppix 5.1.1. Signals Question

MusicWriter0984 · 05-02-2007, 06:53 PM

How do I send a "lost" signal in this version of Knoppix? I was asked to observe teh effects of doing this in an assignment,a nd I can't find any information on how to do this.

Thanks.

doc.nice · 05-03-2007, 06:39 AM

see "man kill" and "man signal", but I don't think SIGLOST can be used in Linux (acc. to man signal), maybe try kill -29

HTH,
Flo

MusicWriter0984 · 05-04-2007, 10:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by doc.nice

see "man kill" and "man signal", but I don't think SIGLOST can be used in Linux (acc. to man signal), maybe try kill -29

HTH,
Flo

Thanks. It took some searching, but I eventually found in the man pages that SIGLOST doenst' have a number associated with it. Checking further down the pages:

“BUGS
SIGIO and SIGLOST have the same value. The latter is commented out in
the kernel source, but the build process of some software still thinks
that signal 29 is SIGLOST.”

It looks like it was a little trick by the professor, and it seems 29 is about the closest anyone could get to that.

Thanks.