online docs for signal handling on *nix

[Ben Fitzgerald]

Hi

I've googled for this but didn't strike gold.

I'm working on a linux box but would welcome pointers to any
basic signal handling documentation online.

I have read the book "Using C on the Unix system" but it was
printed in 1991 so it's not up to date.

I accept that I may have to buy a book on this. (perhaps
Addison Wesley-Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment)

Any recommendations for online docs? Or failing that, printed
material.

Thanks,

--
Ben Fitzgerald
London, UK

[Fletcher Glenn]

Ben Fitzgerald wrote:

>
> Hi
>
> I've googled for this but didn't strike gold.
>
> I'm working on a linux box but would welcome pointers to any
> basic signal handling documentation online.
>
> I have read the book "Using C on the Unix system" but it was
> printed in 1991 so it's not up to date.
>
> I accept that I may have to buy a book on this. (perhaps
> Addison Wesley-Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment)
>
> Any recommendations for online docs? Or failing that, printed
> material.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Ben Fitzgerald
> London, UK

Try entering the command:

man sigaction

On any UNIX system, that has manuals installed, this will
return a concise summary of the sigaction command which is
used to register signal handlers with the system.

--
Fletcher Glenn
email [email]f-g-l-e-n-n@quest.com[/email] (remove the dashes)

[Russell Shaw]

Ben Fitzgerald wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've googled for this but didn't strike gold.
>
> I'm working on a linux box but would welcome pointers to any
> basic signal handling documentation online.
>
> I have read the book "Using C on the Unix system" but it was
> printed in 1991 so it's not up to date.
>
> I accept that I may have to buy a book on this. (perhaps
> Addison Wesley-Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment)
>
> Any recommendations for online docs? Or failing that, printed
> material.

Read the libc manual: [url]http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.2.5/libc.html[/url]

[Villy Kruse]

On 15 Jul 2003 23:05:21 GMT,
Ben Fitzgerald <ben_m_fREMOVE@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>Hi
>
>I've googled for this but didn't strike gold.
>
>I'm working on a linux box but would welcome pointers to any
>basic signal handling documentation online.
>
>I have read the book "Using C on the Unix system" but it was
>printed in 1991 so it's not up to date.
>

Nothing drastic has changed since then. We still have BSD versus
SysV style signal() handling and POSIX style sigaction() with a number of
implementation defined flags. The only new issue realy is threading
which complicates things a bit.



"Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment", Addison-Wesley 1992
is still a great book.


Villy

[Joe Halpin]

Ben Fitzgerald <ben_m_fREMOVE@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> I've googled for this but didn't strike gold.
>
> I'm working on a linux box but would welcome pointers to any
> basic signal handling documentation online.

In addition to the other replies you've gotten, there's an overview of
signals on the OpenGroup web page:

[url]http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/xsh_chap02_04.html#tag_02_04[/url]

Joe

[Ben Fitzgerald]

On 16 Jul 2003 07:33:34 Joe Halpin <jhalpin@nortelnetworks.com_.nospam> wrote:

> Ben Fitzgerald <ben_m_fREMOVE@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>

>> I've googled for this but didn't strike gold.
>>
>> I'm working on a linux box but would welcome pointers to any
>> basic signal handling documentation online.

>
> In addition to the other replies you've gotten, there's an overview of
> signals on the OpenGroup web page:
>
> [url]http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/xsh_chap02_04.html#tag_02_04[/url]
>
> Joe

These are all very usefull suggestions/comments that I will follow up.

Thanks for taking the time to post your ideas.

--
Ben Fitzgerald
London, UK