SIGLOST
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| Description: | File lock lost |
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| Default action: | Abnormal termination of the process |
| SA_SIGINFO macros | |
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On some Unix-like platforms, SIGLOST is the signal sent to computer programs when a file lock is lost. The symbolic constant for SIGLOST is defined in the header file signal.h. Symbolic signal names are used because signal numbers can vary across platforms.
[edit] Etymology
SIG is a common prefix for signal names. LOST refers to a lost file lock.
[edit] Usage
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SIGLOST is sent to a process when a file lock is lost. This may occur, for example, when an NFS server reboots and forgets about a file lock.
| 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 |
