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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE FOUNDATION OR CONTRIBUTORS 26.\" BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 27.\" CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 28.\" SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS 29.\" INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN 30.\" CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) 31.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE 32.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.Dd September 27, 1999 35.Dt SIGNAL 7 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm signal 39.Nd signal facilities 40.Sh DESCRIPTION 41The 42.Aq Pa signal.h 43header file defines the following signals: 44.Pp 45.Bl -column "SIGVTALARM" "terminate process" -compact 46.It Li Em "Name" Ta Em "Default Action" Ta Em "Description" 47.It Li SIGHUP Ta "terminate process" Ta "terminal line hangup" 48.It Li SIGINT Ta "terminate process" Ta "interrupt program" 49.It Li SIGQUIT Ta "create core image" Ta "quit program" 50.It Li SIGILL Ta "create core image" Ta "illegal instruction" 51.It Li SIGTRAP Ta "create core image" Ta "trace trap" 52.It Li SIGABRT Ta "create core image" Ta Xr abort 3 53call (formerly 54.Dv SIGIOT ) 55.It Li SIGEMT Ta "create core image" Ta "emulate instruction executed" 56.It Li SIGFPE Ta "create core image" Ta "floating-point exception" 57.It Li SIGKILL Ta "terminate process" Ta "kill program (cannot be caught or ignored)" 58.It Li SIGBUS Ta "create core image" Ta "bus error" 59.It Li SIGSEGV Ta "create core image" Ta "segmentation violation" 60.It Li SIGSYS Ta "create core image" Ta "invalid system call argument" 61.It Li SIGPIPE Ta "terminate process" Ta "write to a pipe with no reader" 62.It Li SIGALRM Ta "terminate process" Ta "real-time timer expired" 63.It Li SIGTERM Ta "terminate process" Ta "software termination signal" 64.It Li SIGURG Ta "discard signal" Ta "urgent condition present on socket" 65.It Li SIGSTOP Ta "stop process" Ta "stop (cannot be caught or ignored)" 66.It Li SIGTSTP Ta "stop process" Ta "stop signal generated from keyboard" 67.It Li SIGCONT Ta "discard signal" Ta "continue after stop" 68.It Li SIGCHLD Ta "discard signal" Ta "child status has changed" 69.It Li SIGTTIN Ta "stop process" Ta "background read attempted from control terminal" 70.It Li SIGTTOU Ta "stop process" Ta "background write attempted to control terminal" 71.It Li SIGIO Ta "discard signal" Ta "I/O is possible on a descriptor (see" 72.Xr fcntl 2 ) 73.It Li SIGXCPU Ta "terminate process" Ta "CPU time limit exceeded (see" 74.Xr setrlimit 2 ) 75.It Li SIGXFSZ Ta "terminate process" Ta "file size limit exceeded (see" 76.Xr setrlimit 2 ) 77.It Li SIGVTALRM Ta "terminate process" Ta "virtual time alarm (see" 78.Xr setitimer 2 ) 79.It Li SIGPROF Ta "terminate process" Ta "profiling timer alarm (see" 80.Xr setitimer 2 ) 81.It Li SIGWINCH Ta "discard signal" Ta "window size change" 82.It Li SIGINFO Ta "discard signal" Ta "status request from keyboard" 83.It Li SIGUSR1 Ta "terminate process" Ta "user-defined signal 1" 84.It Li SIGUSR2 Ta "terminate process" Ta "user-defined signal 2" 85.It Li SIGPWR Ta "discard signal" Ta "power failure/restart" 86.El 87.Sh STANDARDS 88These signals conform to 89.St -p1003.1-90 , 90with the exception of 91.Dv SIGTRAP , 92.Dv SIGEMT , 93.Dv SIGBUS , 94.Dv SIGSYS , 95.Dv SIGURG , 96.Dv SIGIO , 97.Dv SIGXCPU , 98.Dv SIGXFSZ , 99.Dv SIGVTALRM , 100.Dv SIGPROF , 101.Dv SIGWINCH , 102and 103.Dv SIGINFO 104which are Berkeley extensions (available on most 105.Bx Ns \-derived 106systems), and 107.Dv SIGPWR 108which comes from System V. 109.Sh HISTORY 110.Dv SIGPWR 111was introduced in 112.Nx 1.4 . 113.Sh NOTES 114The current 115.Nx 116kernel never generates the 117.Dv SIGPWR 118signal. 119.Sh SEE ALSO 120.Xr kill 1 , 121.Xr kill 2 , 122.Xr ptrace 2 , 123.Xr sigaction 2 , 124.Xr sigaltstack 2 , 125.Xr sigprocmask 2 , 126.Xr sigstack 2 , 127.Xr sigsuspend 2 , 128.Xr fpgetmask 3 , 129.Xr fpsetmask 3 , 130.Xr setjmp 3 , 131.Xr sigblock 3 , 132.Xr siginterrupt 3 , 133.Xr signal 3 , 134.Xr sigpause 3 , 135.Xr sigsetmask 3 , 136.Xr sigsetops 3 , 137.Xr tty 4 138