Practice What are Signals? - 6.6.1 | 6. Communication Between Kernel and User Space | Embedded Linux
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Practice Questions

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Question 1

Easy

What is a signal in the context of operating systems?

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think of something that lets an application know something important has happened.

Question 2

Easy

What does SIGINT signal represent?

πŸ’‘ Hint: What do you do to stop a running program in the terminal?

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Interactive Quizzes

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Question 1

What does the SIGINT signal do?

  • Requests the termination of a process
  • Interrupts a running process
  • Notifies of a timer expiration

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how you stop a process in the terminal.

Question 2

True or False: SIGTERM allows a process to clean up before exiting.

  • True
  • False

πŸ’‘ Hint: Is this a polite way to ask a program to stop?

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Challenge Problems

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Question 1

Design a program that uses signal handling to manage multiple signals, including SIGINT and SIGTERM. Describe how your program would respond to each.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Think about how you can differentiate between friendly and unfriendly termination requests.

Question 2

Explain how signal masks can be used in a multithreaded program to manage signals effectively.

πŸ’‘ Hint: Consider how to prevent a worker from stopping mid-task while still allowing user feedback.

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