At 6:49 PM +1000 on 2/22/00, Adrian Sutton wrote:
>>> could you possibly elaborate what SIGTSTP does?
>>
>> Tells the process to pause. Makes it stop eating CPU time.
>
>Adrian: Actually, it tells it that it's not going to get any more CPU time
>for a while - the application doesn't have a choice in the matter.
Yes, it does. SIGTSTP can be caught and ignored by the process. See the
relevant manpages, which I foget the names of off the top of my head.
Might be signal_list or something like that. apropos should find it.
