NAME

     signal - list of available signals

DESCRIPTION

     Linux supports the  signals  listed  below.  Several  signal
     numbers   are  architecture  dependent.  First  the  signals
     described in POSIX.1.


     l     c     c      l      ____      lB      c      c      l.
     Signal    Value     Action    Comment
     SIGHUP     1   A    Hangup detected on controlling  terminal
                    or     death     of    controlling    process
     SIGINT     2   A    Interrupt         from          keyboard
     SIGQUIT    3   A    Quit            from            keyboard
     SIGILL     4   A    Illegal                      Instruction
     SIGABRT    6   C    Abort      signal      from     abort(3)
     SIGFPE     8   C    Floating         point         exception
     SIGKILL    9   AEF  Kill  signal SIGSEGV   11   C    Invalid
     memory reference SIGPIPE   13   A    Broken pipe:  write  to
     pipe  with  no readers SIGALRM   14   A    Timer signal from
     alarm(2)       SIGTERM   15   A    Termination        signal
     SIGUSR1   30,10,16  A    User-defined        signal        1
     SIGUSR2   31,12,17  A    User-defined        signal        2
     SIGCHLD   20,17,18  B    Child    stopped    or   terminated
     SIGCONT   19,18,25       Continue         if         stopped
     SIGSTOP   17,19,23  DEF  Stop                        process
     SIGTSTP   18,20,24  D    Stop       typed       at       tty
     SIGTTIN   21,21,26  D    tty  input  for  background process
     SIGTTOU   22,22,27  D    tty output for background process

     Next various other signals.


     l     c     c      l      ____      lB      c      c      l.
     Signal    Value     Action    Comment
     SIGTRAP   5    CG   Trace/breakpoint                    trap
     SIGIOT    6    CG   IOT   trap.   A   synonym   for  SIGABRT
     SIGEMT    7,-,7     G   SIGBUS    10,7,10   AG   Bus   error
     SIGSYS    12,-,12   G    Bad   argument  to  routine  (SVID)
     SIGSTKFLT -,16,-    AG   Stack    fault    on    coprocessor
     SIGURG    16,23,21  BG   Urgent  condition  on  socket  (4.2
     BSD) SIGIO     23,29,22  AG   I/O  now  possible  (4.2  BSD)
     SIGPOLL        AG   A   synonym   for   SIGIO   (System   V)
     SIGCLD    -,-,18    G    A     synonym      for      SIGCHLD
     SIGXCPU   24,24,30  AG   CPU  time  limit exceeded (4.2 BSD)
     SIGXFSZ   25,25,31  AG   File size limit exceeded (4.2  BSD)
     SIGVTALRM 26,26,28  AG   Virtual   alarm   clock  (4.2  BSD)
     SIGPROF   27,27,29  AG   Profile         alarm         clock
     SIGPWR    29,30,19  AG   Power     failure     (System    V)
     SIGINFO   29,-,-    G    A      synonym      for      SIGPWR
     SIGLOST   -,-,-     AG   File            lock           lost
     SIGWINCH  28,28,20  BG   Window resize signal (4.3 BSD, Sun)
     SIGUNUSED -,31,-    AG   Unused  signal (Here - denotes that
     a signal is absent; there where three values are given,  the
     first  one  is usually valid for alpha and sparc, the middle
     one for i386 and ppc, the last one for mips.  Signal  29  is
     SIGINFO / SIGPWR on an alpha but SIGLOST on a sparc.)

     The letters in the "Action" column have the following  mean-
     ings:

     A    Default action is to terminate the process.

     B    Default action is to ignore the signal.

     C    Default action is to dump core.

     D    Default action is to stop the process.

     E    Signal cannot be caught.

     F    Signal cannot be ignored.

     G    Not a POSIX.1 conformant signal.

CONFORMING TO

     POSIX.1

BUGS

     SIGIO and SIGLOST have the same value.  The latter  is  com-
     mented  out  in  the kernel source, but the build process of
     some software still thinks that signal 29 is SIGLOST.

SEE ALSO

     kill(1), kill(2), setitimer(2)