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- From: coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren)
- Subject: Re: Question on kill signal (SIGKILL)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.140553.22025@osf.org>
- Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System)
- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <1992Nov19.100606.15620@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:05:53 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.100606.15620@nuscc.nus.sg>, isc40038@nusunix1.nus.sg (LIM FANG HOW) writes:
- > How can I program a process to write to a text file upon receiving a
- > SIGKILL from another process ?? I am writing in a C environment.
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- You can't. The kernel will not let you supply a handler for SIGKILL --
- it *always* kills the process, unconditionally.
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- Did you perhaps mean some other signal?
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