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From: jsv@cci632.UUCP ( co-op)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: signal problems on BSD
Keywords: signal HUP BSD
Message-ID: <34853@cci632.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 90 22:30:11 GMT
Reply-To: jsv@cci632.UUCP (Jeffer Veiss)
Organization: Computer Consoles Inc. an STC Company, Rochester, NY
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I have a program written in C that captures the HUP signal sent when a user
logs out and prints some information to a file.  This program works fine on
System V but on BSD machines, the program doesn't seem to get the signal and
when I log back on, it's still running (the interrupt function on this signal
has an exit() in it) and nothing was written to the file.

I know the program understands the signal, because when I execute:

   % kill -HUP <pid>

the program ends (on both systems) properly.

Any ideas as to why?

Jepher


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