On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 02:40:16AM +0100, Nuno Almeida wrote: > I would like to know if this is simply a singularity of Debian, or if > it's a bug of mine. > > When I'm programming in C/C++ to other linux distr. and I make a > signal trap I can't, and that's absolutly normal, trap the signals 9 > and 17, for SIGKILL and SIGSTOP. On Debian I can catch the SIGSTOP > signal is this normal? Why the diference?
No this is not normal. According to Eric Troan in Linux Magazine (Feb. 2000), "This signal cannot be caught or ignored; it always stops the process as soon as it's received." Perhaps you would like to post some code that shows how you do this. I would bet that it's a bug of yours. Cheers, Chris -- pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl.
