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From: cmf@cisunx.UUCP (Carl M. Fongheiser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: SIGSTOP - what is it?
Message-ID: <3684@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 11:46:53 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  6 11:46:53 1987
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Reply-To: cmf@cisunx.UUCP (Carl M. Fongheiser)
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SIGSTOP is a non-ignorable, non-catchable way of stopping a process,
just as SIGKILL is a non-ignorable, non-catchable way of aborting a process.

					Carl Fongheiser
					Systems Analyst/Programmer
					University of Pittsburgh
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