On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Edoardo Spelta wrote: >I haven't understood completely what signals are, but i have a problem >with them: i must include a piece of code in my CircleMud which i cant >change or recompile (the new code obviously) that uses the two usually >unused signals SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2. These two signals are already in use >by the mud..are there other user signals which i can assign ? the mud >would conflict with the new code if i don't do anything.. Some of these may be available: Signal Comments ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SIGWINCH MUD shouldn't receive a window resize if in background. SIGINT You won't be able to CTRL+Z the MUD anymore, use SIGSTOP. SIGTRAP GDB will be useless. SIGPROF Don't profile (-pg in gcc) your code. SIGUNUSED Duh. Not all may be available and I haven't tested the above. -- George Greer, greerga@circlemud.org | Genius may have its limitations, but http://mouse.van.ml.org/ (mostly) | stupidity is not thus handicapped. http://www.van.ml.org/CircleMUD/ | -- Elbert Hubbard +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://democracy.queensu.ca/~fletcher/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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