10-04-2001
Signal Processing
Hello,
Can any body give example of using Unix Signals. What I want to do is
I am running a sql query in a shell script
I want, if sql query exceed the defined no. of seconds limit, then I would like to kill the process.
I know this can be done thru Unix Signal Handling but I do not know how ?
Thanks
Sanjay
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