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From: wagner@iaoobelix.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: SIGUSR1, SIGUSR2 are pretty useless - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 30-May-87 08:07:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 30 08:07:00 1987
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I really cannot agree to that. SIGUSR[12] might be useful for special
operations triggered by sending one of these signals to a process. Using
SIGUSR[12] guarantees that the signal is not caught eventually by any
system-defined handler you haven't been aware of. E.g. I am using the SIGUSR1
signal to start a screen refresh operation of my `suntools' process...

Juergen Wagner,		     (USENET) ...seismo!unido!iaoobel!wagner
("Gandalf")			 Fraunhofer Institute IAO, Stuttgart