Re: Meaning of: kill -USR2

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:24:47 -0700 (PDT)
White Hat <pigskin_referee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have seen 'kill -USR2' used in some scripts;
however, I am unable to find out exactly what it is
referring to. The man page for 'kill' does not list
any 'USR2' flag or signal, unless I am reading it
incorrectly.

Perhaps, someone can tell me exactly what this signal
means.

SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 are signals that don't have any predefined meaning.
You can use them for based inter-process communication.

See:
man 3 signal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGUSR1_and_SIGUSR2


Jona

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