communication (IPC), typically used in Unix, Unix-like, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. A signal is an asynchronous notification sent to...

additional signals; see Unix signal. SIGTRAP for debugging purposes. It's platform-dependent and may be used on Unix-like operating systems. A signal can be...

The Unix philosophy, originated by Ken Thompson, is a set of cultural norms and philosophical approaches to minimalist, modular software development. It...

advanced features can be performed by sending signals to the job. Job control is of particular interest in Unix due to its multiprocessing, and should be...

which is part of the Single UNIX Specification (SUS). These commands are implemented in many shells on modern Unix, Unix-like and other operating systems...

interactive command interpreter and command programming language developed for UNIX-like operating systems. Created in 1989 by Brian Fox for the GNU Project...

POSIX-compliant systems is an abnormal termination. Unix signal RS-232 Kerrisk, Michael, ed. (25 July 2009), "SIGNAL(7)", Linux Programmer's Manual (version 3.22)...

from its parent, a child and parent may signal each other. POSIX requires the UID to be an integer type. Most Unix-like operating systems represent the UID...

converting file data. Originally developed for Unix, it has been implemented on many other environments including Unix-like operating systems, Windows, Plan 9...

operating systems to send signals to running processes. In Unix and Unix-like operating systems, kill is a command used to send a signal to a process. By default...

when receiving specific OS signals. In Unix-like operating systems, one means of inter-process communication is through signals. When an executing unit (process...

The Unix command fuser is used to show which processes are using a specified computer file, file system, or Unix socket. For example, to check process...

The cron command-line utility is a job scheduler on Unix-like operating systems. Users who set up and maintain software environments use cron to schedule...

sending a signal, like the kill program. Kill all processes named xmms: killall xmms Free and open-source software portal List of Unix commands Signal (computing)...

the Unix shells ksh, bash, fish and zsh, the disown builtin command is used to remove jobs from the job table, or to mark jobs so that a SIGHUP signal is...

longer offered the service.[citation needed] It is implemented on Unix (like macOS), Unix-like systems (like Linux and FreeBSD), and current versions of...

In Unix and Unix-like computer operating systems, a file descriptor (FD, less frequently fildes) is a process-unique identifier (handle) for a file or...

process groups, daemons, inter-process communication, and signals. One chapter is devoted to the Unix terminal control and another to the pseudo terminal concept...

the Unix operating system. For a small company, MASSCOMP incorporated a number of ambitious and innovative projects in addition to Real-Time Unix, including...

utility interfaces, for software compatibility (portability) with variants of Unix and other operating systems. POSIX is also a trademark of the IEEE. POSIX...

Unix System Laboratories (USL), sometimes written UNIX System Laboratories to follow relevant trademark guidelines of the time, was an American software...

language Signal (IPC), a form of inter-process communication used in Unix and related operating systems C signal handling, a way for handling signals received...

standby condition. Its most common use today is to cause a Unix terminal driver to signal end of file and thus exit programs that are awaiting input....

computer operating systems. It first appeared on Version 7 Unix, as its default shell. Unix-like systems continue to have /bin/sh—which will be the Bourne...

In computer networking, STREAMS is the native framework in Unix System V for implementing character device drivers, network protocols, and inter-process...

CUPS (formerly an acronym for Common UNIX Printing System) is a modular printing system for Unix-like computer operating systems which allows a computer...

"interrupt" key. 2 Control-D has been used to signal "end of file" for text typed in at the terminal on Unix / Linux systems. Windows, MsDOS, and older minicomputers...

top is a task manager or system monitor program, found in many Unix-like operating systems, that displays information about CPU and memory utilization...

uninterruptibly, signals accumulated during the sleep will be noticed when the process returns from the system call or trap. In Unix-like systems the...

or SIGINT may refer to: Signals intelligence, intelligence-gathering by interception of signals SIGINT (POSIX), a Unix signal Sigint (character), from...