THE UNIX ACRONYM LIST

Unix Signals

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AcronymMeaning
SIGABRT signal: abort
SIGALRM signal: alarm clock
SIGBUS signal: bus error
SIGCHLD signal: (exit of a) child
SIGCONT signal: continue
SIGEMT signal: EMT instruction
SIGFPE signal: floating point exception
SIGHUP signal: hangup
SIGILL signal: illegal instruction
SIGINT signal: interruption
SIGIO signal: input/output (possible or completed)
SIGSEGV signal: segmentation violation
SIGSYS signal: (bad argument to) system call
SIGTERM signal: terminate
SIGTTIN signal: TTY input
SIGTTOU signal: TTY output
SIGTSTP Signal: terminal stop
SIGURG signal: urgent I/O condition
SIGUSR1 signal: user-defined signal 1 (also: SIGUSR2)
SIGWINCH signal: window (size) changed

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