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Top Forums Programming signal handler problems Post 302132703 by bishweshwar on Sunday 19th of August 2007 09:06:39 AM
Old 08-19-2007
doubt in understanding the signal handler

Establishing the signal handler
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signal (SIGALRM, catch_alarm);

Calling the signal handler
-------------------------
catch_alarm (int sig)
{
keep_going = 0;
signal (sig, catch_alarm);
}

The above codes are just the signal handling snippet from the larger program.

Please explain how the call of the signal handling functions here. how the signal inside catch_alarm gets called when no argument is passed while establishing the handler.
 

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RAISE(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  RAISE(3)

NAME
raise - send a signal to the caller SYNOPSIS
#include <signal.h> int raise(int sig); DESCRIPTION
The raise() function sends a signal to the calling process or thread. In a single-threaded program it is equivalent to kill(getpid(), sig); In a multithreaded program it is equivalent to pthread_kill(pthread_self(), sig); If the signal causes a handler to be called, raise() will return only after the signal handler has returned. RETURN VALUE
raise() returns 0 on success, and nonzero for failure. CONFORMING TO
C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001. NOTES
Since version 2.3.3, glibc implements raise() by calling tgkill(2), if the kernel supports that system call. Older glibc versions imple- mented raise() using kill(2). SEE ALSO
getpid(2), kill(2), sigaction(2), signal(2), pthread_kill(3), signal(7) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. GNU
2012-04-20 RAISE(3)
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