How Do You Send a Signal in Linux?
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How do you send a signal to a process in Linux?

3. Send Signal to a Process from Keyboard

  1. SIGINT (Ctrl + C) – You know this already. Pressing Ctrl + C kills the running foreground process. This sends the SIGINT to the process to kill it.
  2. You can send SIGQUIT signal to a process by pressing Ctrl + or Ctrl + Y.

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How signals are handled in Linux?

Linux threads call clone with CLONE_SIGHAND; this shares all signal handlers between threads via sharing the current->sig pointer. Delivered signals are unique to a thread. In some operating systems, such as Solaris 7, signals generated as a result of a trap (SIGFPE, SIGILL, etc.)

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