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General Programming Concepts: Writing and Debugging Programs

List of Threads-Processes Interactions Subroutines

alarm Causes a signal to be sent to the calling process after a specified timeout.
kill or killpg Sends a signal to a process or a group of processes.
pthread_atfork Registers fork cleanup handlers.
pthread_kill Sends a signal to the specified thread.
raise Sends a signal to the executing program.
sigaction, sigvec, or signal Specifies the action to take upon delivery of a signal.
sigsuspend or sigpause Atomically changes the set of blocked signals and waits for a signal.
sigthreadmask Sets the signal mask of a thread.
sigwait Blocks the calling thread until a specified signal is received.

Related Information

Threads-Processes Interactions Overview.

Threads Library Quick Reference.


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