On 13 August 2010 00:00, deepak kumar <deepakkuma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone. > I have a process running. Is it is possible to inform the process about the > system shutdown, restart or a kill signal, so > that the process can do some jobs before it gets killed. > > --
Processes are notified of an impending shutdown by the signal SIGTERM. You could write a signal handler for it (see man 2 signal), though I'm not sure it will have enough time to execute if the delay is set to 0. SIGKILL and SIGSTOP cannot be handled. Cheers Naufal -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
