SIGPWR signal in system v
John R. MacMillan
john at sco.COM
Tue May 7 07:05:23 AEST 1991
|Does anybody out there have information on the SYS V SIGPWR signal? The man
|says that this signal occurs if there's a power failure. I have a couple of
|questioned which I haven't been able to answer myself:
On the only system I've used that implemented SIGPWR, the signal is
raised when power is _restored_ not just before it goes away. In the
event of a power loss the kernel alone had any warning and was able to
write memory contents and state info to non-volatile storage. When
power was restored, the kernel restored the previous state, and sent
SIGPWR to all processes. I can't remember for certain, but I think
the default handling may have been SIG_IGN, so many processeses
wouldn't even notice the power loss. Those that caught SIGPWR could
refresh their screens, or whatever.
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