Sending and Handling Signals in C (kill, signal, sigaction)

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How do we send signals to programs? How do we write programs in C that handle those signals? Signals are one of the most basic ways that computer programs interact with each other and with the operating system. This video teaches you how to interrupt, terminate, pause, resume, and kill processes and make processes that are almost immortal.



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