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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: SIGSTOP - what is it?
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Date: Thu, 2-Jul-87 21:05:32 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  2 21:05:32 1987
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> Programs that play around with the screen, use raw mode, or otherwise
> want to perform some action when the SIGTSTP (the one generated by ^Z)
> occurs use this.  They catch the SIGTSTP signal and when they really
> want to stop themselves they send SIGSTOP to themselves.

Except that a lot of them catch the SIGTSTP signal and, when they
really want to stop themselves, they send SIGTSTP to themselves
(after possibly resetting the signal action for SIGTSTP).
	Guy Harris
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