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Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
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http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
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</legalnotice>
<title>kernel</title>
@@ -58,6 +58,60 @@
</section>
<section>
+ <title>OS Signal Event Handler</title>
+ <p>Asynchronous OS signals may be subscribed to via the Kernel applications event manager
+ (see <seealso marker="doc/design_principles:des_princ">OTP Design Principles</seealso> and
+ <seealso marker="stdlib:gen_event"><c>gen_event(3)</c></seealso>) registered as <c>erl_signal_server</c>.
+ A default signal handler is installed which handles the following signals:</p>
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c>sigusr1</c></tag>
+ <item><p>The default handler will halt Erlang and produce a crashdump
+ with slogan "Received SIGUSR1".
+ This is equivalent to calling <c>erlang:halt("Received SIGUSR1")</c>.
+ </p></item>
+
+ <tag><c>sigquit</c></tag>
+ <item><p>The default handler will halt Erlang immediately.
+ This is equivalent to calling <c>erlang:halt()</c>.
+ </p></item>
+
+ <tag><c>sigterm</c></tag>
+ <item><p>The default handler will terminate Erlang normally.
+ This is equivalent to calling <c>init:stop()</c>.
+ </p></item>
+ </taglist>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Events</title>
+ <p>Any event handler added to <c>erl_signal_server</c> must handle the following events.</p>
+ <taglist>
+ <tag><c>sighup</c></tag>
+ <item><p>Hangup detected on controlling terminal or death of controlling process</p></item>
+ <tag><c>sigquit</c></tag>
+ <item><p>Quit from keyboard</p></item>
+ <tag><c>sigabrt</c></tag>
+ <item><p>Abort signal from abort</p></item>
+ <tag><c>sigalrm</c></tag>
+ <item><p>Timer signal from alarm</p></item>
+ <tag><c>sigterm</c></tag>
+ <item><p>Termination signal</p></item>
+ <tag><c>sigusr1</c></tag>
+ <item><p>User-defined signal 1</p></item>
+ <tag><c>sigusr2</c></tag>
+ <item><p>User-defined signal 2</p></item>
+ <tag><c>sigchld</c></tag>
+ <item><p>Child process stopped or terminated</p></item>
+ <tag><c>sigstop</c></tag>
+ <item><p>Stop process</p></item>
+ <tag><c>sigtstp</c></tag>
+ <item><p>Stop typed at terminal</p></item>
+ </taglist>
+
+ <p>Setting OS signals are described in <seealso marker="os#set_signal/2"><c>os:set_signal/2</c></seealso>.</p>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
<title>Configuration</title>
<p>The following configuration parameters are defined for the Kernel
application. For more information about configuration parameters,
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<seealso marker="stdlib:timer"><c>timer(3)</c></seealso></p>
</section>
</appref>
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