Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep

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Subject: Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep
From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 23:49:51 +0100
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Mark A. Heilpern wrote:

> Maybe I'm just naive, but it's my understanding that you cannot
> send signals to a process you don't own unless you are root.

You can if you control the pty where the program is running. Then
simulate susp characters (usually ^Z) to generate SIGTSTP, break (^C) to
generate SIGINT or quit (^\) to generate SIGQUIT.

--
Henrik Nordstrom

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