On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:47:46PM -0700, Samuel Flory wrote: > Jeff Kinz wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 08:11:16PM -0700, Samuel Flory wrote: > >>Use the man pages folks > >>man kill > >>man 7 signal > > > >What really kills me here is that I looked at those man pages > >just before I posted, assuming that the feature had to be in Linux by > >now. > > > That's pretty much why I looked it up. I was in a bad mood yesterday. > > >But signal 19 is the "STOP" signal, not the "Pause" signal, so I > >assumed (Yeah, I know..) that no pause/resume existed. > > > >However, "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet....." > > > But the man pages are always so clear;-) And it's obvious that the > correct command to send arbitrary singal to porccess would be kill.
Yes, you're so right :-) I really should have been able to tell from the man page. In fact with 20+ odd years, (yes, "very" odd years.), of UNIX behind me I should have just known not only about the functionality, I should have been able to simply guess the value of the signal! :-) -- Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. Don't forget to change your password often. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
