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3 cards from this section. Quick, good the night before a test.
What is a signal in the context of operating systems?
Think of something that lets an application know something important has happened.
What does SIGINT signal represent?
What do you do to stop a running program in the terminal?
What does the SIGINT signal do?
Think about how you stop a process in the terminal.
True or False: SIGTERM allows a process to clean up before exiting.
Is this a polite way to ask a program to stop?
Design a program that uses signal handling to manage multiple signals, including SIGINT and SIGTERM. Describe how your program would respond to each.
Think about how you can differentiate between friendly and unfriendly termination requests.
Explain how signal masks can be used in a multithreaded program to manage signals effectively.
Consider how to prevent a worker from stopping mid-task while still allowing user feedback.
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