Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 12:03:52 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Clarification re: signals
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On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Paul Derbyshire wrote:

> What exactly are the purposes of the following signals? Once again the
> (2.01) info files are not clear about them.

Upgrade to v2.02.

> SIGKILL    -- Does this pop upwhen a process receives kill()?

Yes.  But in DJGPP, a program can only kill() itself, it cannot kill 
another program.

> SIGQUIT    -- ???

Pressing Ctrl-\ (in v2.02) generates it.

> SIGTERM    -- ???

Not used in DJGPP.

> SIGILL     -- ???

Illegal machine instruction.  Generated by the CPU (e.g. the Invalid 
Opcode exception).