Signals with trap

[chakib]

Hello,

I am preparing a small class for students on signals with trap. I understood the use of this principle with the example on signal 2 SIGINT:

trap "echo hello" 2: which displays "hello" each time you press the shortcut ctrl + c.

On the other hand, I have difficulty assimilating the use of the following cases:

1. The effect of signal 3 SIGQUIT.

2. The effect of siganl 9 SIGKILL.

3. The effect of the signal 19 SIGSTOP.

Can you guide me with simple examples please?

Best regard

[xenopeek]

You can find explanation of signals here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(I ... IX_signals

Ctrl+\ sends SIGQUIT. Would normally quit the process.

Ctrl+Z sends SIGSTOP. It's a job control command. Pauses the running job and returns user to the shell. jobs list all jobs and fg can be used to resume a paused job. See help jobs and help fg.

You can't trap SIGKILL or SIGSTOP in Bash I think.

[rene]

You can't trap SIGKILL or SIGSTOP in Bash I think.

Indeed; those two signals (and only those) can not in fact be caught by any program. Hence the use of kill -9 as a process sledge hammer...