/signal

Usage:

/SIGNAL [sig]


Sends signal sig to the tf process, or with no arguments, /signal lists all valid signal names. Valid signals usually include: HUP, INT, QUIT, KILL, SEGV, TERM, USR1, USR2, and TSTP. The complete list varies from system to system.

INT (usually generated by typing ^C) will terminate any /WHILE loop and the user will be prompted for the next action.

See: /suspend, getpid(), hooks (SIGHUP, SIGTERM, SIGUSR1, SIGUSR2)


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