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Learning Linux Shell Scripting - Second Edition
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Learning Linux Shell Scripting - Second Edition

by Ganesh Sanjiv Naik
May 2018
Beginner content levelBeginner
332 pages
7h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding signals and traps

Two types of interrupts exist in the Linux operating system: hardware interrupts and software interrupts. Software interrupts are called signals or traps. Software interrupts are used for inter-process synchronizations.

Signals are used to notify us about a certain event occurrence or to initiate a certain activity.

We use software signals many times. For example, if any command does not respond after being typed, then you might have entered Ctrl + C. This sends a SIGINT signal to the process, and the process is terminated. In certain situations, we may want the program to perform a certain activity instead of terminating it using Ctrl + C. In such cases, we can use the trap command to ignore a signal or to ...

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