On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, John Hawkinson wrote:

>In message <Pine.SGI.4.10.10010060800120.2159-100000@maanantai.hit.fi>, Petri K
>oistinen writes:
>>Should programs just stop/quit if they get SIGQUIT?
>
>Well, the default behavior when receiving SIGQUIT is to print Quit
>and core dump. This is the default behavior for a lot of signals,
>and is documented.

And if you *don't* want the core dump you should use SIGINT (usually
on ^C).


Roger

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