Catching ^C and ^Z

Rahul Dhesi dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com
Sat Sep 8 06:18:54 AEST 1990


>SIGKILL and SIGSTOP *cannot* be
>generated by any keystroke sequence on a terminal!

Just in case there was any doubt, let's rephrase this:

     SIGKILL and SIGSTOP cannot be generated by any keystroke
     sequence *that is given special treatment by the tty driver*.

This will forestall somebody piping up with "What about the keystroke
sequence 'k' 'i' 'l' 'l' blank dash '9'?"
--
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl at oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
UUCP:  oliveb!cirrusl!dhesi



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