Dan Nelson writes: > ^Z sends a SIGTSTP, which can be caught (or ignored, in your case). > > 18 SIGTSTP stop process stop signal generated from > keyboard > > According to > > > > % stty -g > > ... status=14:stop=13:susp=1a:time=0:werase=17: ... > ^^^^^^^ > > 17 SIGSTOP stop process stop (cannot be caught or > > ignored) > > > > And I think that 17 (decimal) is refered to as 1a (hexadecimal) > > in the previous stty command. > > 1a hex just refers to the control code itself (^Z), and doesn't indicate > which signal is sent.
Thanks to all. In this case, I made SIGTSTP have the same effect in the program that CTRL-C does (SIGINT) so now either signal makes the application remove the lock and quit gracefully. Again, many thanks to everybody. Martin McCormick _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"