SIGXFSZ
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| Description: | File size limit exceeded (4.2BSD) |
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| Default action: | Abnormal termination of the process |
| SA_SIGINFO macros | |
| None | |
On POSIX-compliant platforms, SIGXFSZ is the signal thrown by computer programs that grow a file larger than the maximum allowed size. In source code, SIGXFSZ is a symbolic constant defined in the header file signal.h. Symbolic signal names are used because a signal's designated number can vary across platforms.
[edit] Etymology
SIG is a common prefix for signal names. XFSZ is an abbreviation for exceeded file size.
[edit] Usage
SIGXFSZ is sent to a process when it causes a file to grow larger than the maximum allowed size, as determined by the ulimit system call and shell builtin.
| POSIX Signals |
| SIGABRT | SIGALRM | SIGFPE | SIGHUP | SIGILL | SIGINT | SIGKILL | SIGPIPE | SIGQUIT | SIGSEGV | SIGTERM | SIGUSR1 | SIGUSR2 | SIGCHLD | SIGCONT | SIGSTOP | SIGTSTP | SIGTTIN | SIGTTOU | SIGBUS | SIGPOLL | SIGPROF | SIGSYS | SIGTRAP | SIGURG | SIGVTALRM | SIGXCPU | SIGXFSZ | Realtime Signals are user definable—SIGRTMIN+n through SIGRTMAX. |
| Common non-POSIX signals and synonyms |
| SIGIOT | SIGEMT | SIGSTKFLT | SIGIO | SIGCLD | SIGINFO | SIGPWR (SIGINFO) | SIGLOST | SIGWINCH | SIGUNUSED |
