Capturing SIGSTOP

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Wed Nov 23 23:22:23 EST 2011


On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Is there a way to catch SIGSTOP?

In the strictest sense, no; SIGSTOP can't be caught. However, some
systems have SIGTSTP which is sent when you hit Ctrl-Z, which would be
what you're looking for.

http://www.gnu.org/s/hello/manual/libc/Job-Control-Signals.html

Tested on my Linux box only; this almost certainly won't work on Windows.

ChrisA



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