SIGCONT occurs after a SIGTERM

Heiko Blume src at scuzzy.in-berlin.de
Thu Feb 14 08:31:10 AEST 1991


richard at locus.com (Richard M. Mathews) writes:
>The solution is don't catch SIGCONT.  Your SIGTSTP handler knows when
>the program resumes anyway because the line after the "kill" which
>caused it to suspend itself will not be reached until the program is
>resumed.

which fails miserably when you get the uncatchable SIGSTOP.
*yes*, i do use SIGSTOP, there are programs that disable
the SIGTSTP feature, and i won't let those go unsuspended.
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