UNIX Signals

UNIX Signals

SIGHUP	1	Exit	Hangup
SIGINT	2	Exit	Interrupt
SIGQUIT	3	Core	Quit
SIGILL	4	Core	Illegal Instruction
SIGTRAP	5	Core	Trace/Breakpoint Trap
SIGABRT	6	Core	Abort
SIGEMT	7	Core	Emulation Trap
SIGFPE	8	Core	Arithmetic Exception
SIGKILL	9	Exit	Killed
SIGBUS	10	Core	Bus Error
SIGSEGV	11	Core	Segmentation Fault
SIGSYS	12	Core	Bad System Call
SIGPIPE	13	Exit	Broken Pipe
SIGALRM	14	Exit	Alarm Clock
SIGTERM	15	Exit	Terminated
SIGUSR1	16	Exit	User Signal 1
SIGUSR2	17	Exit	User Signal 2
SIGCHLD	18	Ignore	Child Status
SIGPWR	19	Ignore	Power Fail/Restart
SIGWINCH	20	Ignore	Window Size Change
SIGURG	21	Ignore	Urgent Socket Condition
SIGPOLL	22	Ignore	Socket I/O Possible
SIGSTOP	23	Stop	Stopped (signal)
SIGTSTP	24	Stop	Stopped (user)
SIGCONT	25	Ignore	Continued
SIGTTIN	26	Stop	Stopped (tty input)
SIGTTOU	27	Stop	Stopped (tty output)
SIGVTALRM	28	Exit	Virtual Timer Expired
SIGPROF	29	Exit	Profiling Timer Expired
SIGXCPU	30	Core	CPU time limit exceeded
SIGXFSZ	31	Core	File size limit exceeded
SIGWAITING	32	Ignore	All LWPs blocked
SIGLWP	33	Ignore	Virtual Interprocessor Interrupt for Threads Library
SIGAIO	34	Ignore	Asynchronous I/O

FreeBSD Signals

Signal Name	Signal Number	Signal Description
SIGHUP	1	Terminal line hangup
SIGINT	2	Interrupt program
SIGQUIT	3	Quit program
SIGILL	4	Illegal instruction
SIGTRAP	5	Trace trap
SIGABRT	6	Abort
SIGEMT	7	Emulate instruction executed
SIGFPE	8	Floating-point exception
SIGKILL	9	Kill program
SIGBUS	10	Bus error
SIGSEGV	11	Segmentation violation
SIGSYS	12	Bad argument to system call
SIGPIPE	13	Write on a pipe with no one to read it
SIGALRM	14	Real-time timer expired
SIGTERM	15	Software termination signal
SIGURG	16	Urgent condition on I/O channel
SIGSTOP	17	Stop signal not from terminal
SIGTSTP	18	Stop signal from terminal
SIGCONT	19	A stopped process is being continued
SIGCHLD	20	Notification to parent on child stop or exit
SIGTTIN	21	Read on terminal by background process
SIGTTOU	22	Write to terminal by background process
SIGIO	23	I/O possible on a descriptor
SIGXCPU	24	CPU time limit exceeded
SIGXFSZ	25	File-size limit exceeded
SIGVTALRM	26	Virtual timer expired
SIGPROF	27	Profiling timer expired
SIGWINCH	28	Window size changed
SIGINFO	29	Information request
SIGUSR1	30	User-defined signal 1
SIGUSR2	31	User-defined signal 2
SIGTHR	32	Thread interrupt

Solaris Signals

Signal Name	Signal Number	Signal Description
SIGHUP	1	Hangs up
SIGINT	2	Interrupts
SIGQUIT	3	Quits
SIGILL	4	Illegal instruction
SIGTRAP	5	Trace trap
SIGABRT	6	Used by abort
SIGEMT	7	EMT instruction
SIGFPE	8	Floating-point exception
SIGKILL	9	Kill (cannot be caught or ignored)
SIGBUS	10	Bus error
SIGSEGV	11	Segmentation violation
SIGSYS	12	Bad argument to system call
SIGPIPE	13	Writes on a pipe with no one to read it
SIGALRM	14	Alarm clock
SIGTERM	15	Software termination
SIGUSR1	16	User-defined signal 1
SIGUSR2	17	User-defined signal 2
SIGCHLD	18	Child status change alias (POSIX)
SIGPWR	19	Power-fail restart
SIGWINCH	20	Window size change
SIGURG	21	Urgent socket condition
SIGPOLL /SIGIO	22	Pollable event occurred or Socket I/O possible
SIGSTOP	23	Stop (cannot be caught or ignored)
SIGTSTP	24	User stop requested from TTY
SIGCONT	25	Stopped process has been continued
SIGTTIN	26	Background TTY read attempted
SIGTTOU	27	Background TTY write attempted
SIGVTALRM	28	Virtual timer expired
SIGPROF	29	Profiling timer expired
SIGXCPU	30	Exceeded CPU limit
SIGXFSZ	31	Exceeded file size limit
SIGWAITING	32	Process' LWPs are blocked
SIGLWP	33	Special signal used by thread library
SIGFREEZE	34	Special signal used by CPR
SIGTHAW	35	Special signal used by CPR
SIGCANCEL	36	Thread cancellation signal used by libthread
SIGLOST	37	Resource lost
SIGRTMIN	38	Highest priority real-time signal
SIGRTMAX	45	Lowest priority real-time signal