<signal.h>

[antoniosk]

hi,

when I start a compiled program in C (ex: ./program) it generates a process which "dies" at some time.

this is declared on my system with [1]+ 180 exit

how can I make a program which will read this exiting signal and do something else after that?


thank you all in advance

[antoniosk]

let me add that I am using a unix bash shell

[gpraghuram]

Hi,
you have to have a signal handler inside tyour code and inside the signal handler u can do what u like to.
But the advice for signal handler is,it should be short and no processing should be done inside that.

Thanks
Raghuram

[antoniosk]

Hi,
you have to have a signal handler inside tyour code and inside the signal handler u can do what u like to.
But the advice for signal handler is,it should be short and no processing should be done inside that.

Thanks
Raghuram

can you please be more specific? what kind of signal should this handler be expecting from the termination of the program?

[gpraghuram]

Hi,
U have to check signal.h file for the signals.
You can catch all signals except for SIGKILL and SIGSTOP.
If ur process dies while executing, then it may be due to a memory error and u would have received a SISEGV signal.
So first check with ur code and the look at signal handling.

Thanks
Raghuram

[ayan4u]

have u run a debugger....if not thn use it to get the signal that the system throws and then use the appropriate signal handler......

[JosAH]

let me add that I am using a unix bash shell

Doesn't have bash a status variable that contains the exit status of the last
terminated process? (I use csh myself, so no further help from me here ;-)

kind regards,

Jos