Predefined Constants

The following list of signals are supported by the Process Control functions. Please see your systems signal(7) man page for details of the default behavior of these signals.

Process Control constants
WNOHANG (int)
WUNTRACED (int)
SIG_* constants
SIG_IGN (int)
SIG_DFL (int)
SIG_ERR (int)
SIGHUP (int)
SIGINFO (int)
SIGINT (int)
SIGQUIT (int)
SIGILL (int)
SIGTRAP (int)
SIGABRT (int)
SIGIOT (int)
SIGBUS (int)
SIGFPE (int)
SIGKILL (int)
SIGUSR1 (int)
SIGSEGV (int)
SIGUSR2 (int)
SIGPIPE (int)
SIGALRM (int)
SIGTERM (int)
SIGSTKFLT (int)
SIGCLD (int)
SIGCHLD (int)
SIGCONT (int)
SIGSTOP (int)
SIGTSTP (int)
SIGTTIN (int)
SIGTTOU (int)
SIGURG (int)
SIGXCPU (int)
SIGXFSZ (int)
SIGVTALRM (int)
SIGPROF (int)
SIGWINCH (int)
SIGPOLL (int)
SIGIO (int)
SIGPWR (int)
SIGSYS (int)
SIGBABY (int)
SIG_BLOCK (int)
SIG_UNBLOCK (int)
SIG_SETMASK (int)
SI_* constants
SI_USER (int)
SI_NOINFO (int)
SI_KERNEL (int)
SI_QUEUE (int)
SI_TIMER (int)
SI_MSGGQ (int)
SI_ASYNCIO (int)
SI_SIGIO (int)
SI_TKILL (int)
CLD_* constants
CLD_EXITED (int)
CLD_KILLED (int)
CLD_DUMPED (int)
CLD_TRAPPED (int)
CLD_STOPPED (int)
CLD_CONTINUED (int)
TRAP_* constants
TRAP_BRKPT (int)
TRAP_TRACE (int)
POLL_* constants
POLL_IN (int)
POLL_OUT (int)
POLL_MSG (int)
POLL_ERR (int)
POLL_PRI (int)
POLL_HUP (int)
ILL_* constants
ILL_ILLOPC (int)
ILL_ILLOPN (int)
ILL_ILLADR (int)
ILL_ILLTRP (int)
ILL_PRVOPC (int)
ILL_PRVREG (int)
ILL_COPROC (int)
ILL_BADSTK (int)
FPE_* constants
FPE_INTDIV (int)
FPE_INTOVF (int)
FPE_FLTDIV (int)
FPE_FLTOVF (int)
FPE_FLTUND (int)
FPE_FLTRES (int)
FPE_FLTINV (int)
FPE_FLTSUB (int)
SEGV_* constants
SEGV_MAPERR (int)
SEGV_ACCERR (int)
BUS_* constants
BUS_ADRALN (int)
BUS_ADRERR (int)
BUS_OBJERR (int)
CLONE_* constants
CLONE_NEWNS (int)
Available as of PHP 7.4.0
CLONE_NEWIPC (int)
Available as of PHP 7.4.0
CLONE_NEWUTS (int)
Available as of PHP 7.4.0
CLONE_NEWNET (int)
Available as of PHP 7.4.0
CLONE_NEWPID (int)
Available as of PHP 7.4.0
CLONE_NEWUSER (int)
Available as of PHP 7.4.0
CLONE_NEWCGROUP (int)
Available as of PHP 7.4.0
PRIO_* constants
PRIO_PGRP (int)
PRIO_USER (int)
PRIO_PROCESS (int)
PRIO_DARWIN_BG (int)
Available as of PHP 8.1.0.
PRIO_DARWIN_THREAD (int)
Available as of PHP 8.1.0.
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coder dot ua at gmail dot com
10 years ago
You should see all signals and their codes in your system using: kill -l
In my Debian GNU/Linux 7.6 (wheezy):

1) SIGHUP       2) SIGINT       3) SIGQUIT      4) SIGILL       5) SIGTRAP
6) SIGABRT      7) SIGBUS       8) SIGFPE       9) SIGKILL     10) SIGUSR1
11) SIGSEGV     12) SIGUSR2     13) SIGPIPE     14) SIGALRM     15) SIGTERM
16) SIGSTKFLT   17) SIGCHLD     18) SIGCONT     19) SIGSTOP     20) SIGTSTP
21) SIGTTIN     22) SIGTTOU     23) SIGURG      24) SIGXCPU     25) SIGXFSZ
26) SIGVTALRM   27) SIGPROF     28) SIGWINCH    29) SIGIO       30) SIGPWR
31) SIGSYS      34) SIGRTMIN    35) SIGRTMIN+1  36) SIGRTMIN+2  37) SIGRTMIN+3
38) SIGRTMIN+4  39) SIGRTMIN+5  40) SIGRTMIN+6  41) SIGRTMIN+7  42) SIGRTMIN+8
43) SIGRTMIN+9  44) SIGRTMIN+10 45) SIGRTMIN+11 46) SIGRTMIN+12 47) SIGRTMIN+13
48) SIGRTMIN+14 49) SIGRTMIN+15 50) SIGRTMAX-14 51) SIGRTMAX-13 52) SIGRTMAX-12
53) SIGRTMAX-11 54) SIGRTMAX-10 55) SIGRTMAX-9  56) SIGRTMAX-8  57) SIGRTMAX-7
58) SIGRTMAX-6  59) SIGRTMAX-5  60) SIGRTMAX-4  61) SIGRTMAX-3  62) SIGRTMAX-2
63) SIGRTMAX-1  64) SIGRTMAX
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eclecticrob at gmail dot com
12 years ago
On OS X, the values of the constants are:

SIGHUP = 1
SIGINT = 2
SIGQUIT = 3
SIGILL = 4
SIGTRAP = 5
SIGABRT = 6
SIGIOT = 6
SIGBUS = 10
SIGFPE = 8
SIGUSR1 = 30
SIGSEGV = 11
SIGUSR2 = 31
SIGPIPE = 13
SIGALRM = 14
SIGTERM = 15
SIGSTKFLT not defined
SIGCLD not defined
SIGCHLD = 20
SIGCONT = 19
SIGTSTP = 18
SIGTTIN = 21
SIGTTOU = 22
SIGURG = 16
SIGXCPU = 24
SIGXFSZ = 25
SIGVTALRM = 26
SIGPROF = 27
SIGWINCH = 28
SIGPOLL not defined
SIGIO = 23
SIGPWR not defined
SIGSYS = 12
SIGBABY = 12
SIG_BLOCK = 1
SIG_UNBLOCK = 2
SIG_SETMASK = 3
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eclecticrob at gmail dot com
12 years ago
On RedHat, the values of the constants are:

Signal SIGHUP = 1
Signal SIGINT = 2
Signal SIGQUIT = 3
Signal SIGILL = 4
Signal SIGTRAP = 5
Signal SIGABRT = 6
Signal SIGIOT = 6
Signal SIGBUS = 7
Signal SIGFPE = 8
Signal SIGUSR1 = 10
Signal SIGSEGV = 11
Signal SIGUSR2 = 12
Signal SIGPIPE = 13
Signal SIGALRM = 14
Signal SIGTERM = 15
Signal SIGSTKFLT = 16
Signal SIGCLD = 17
Signal SIGCHLD = 17
Signal SIGCONT = 18
Signal SIGTSTP = 20
Signal SIGTTIN = 21
Signal SIGTTOU = 22
Signal SIGURG = 23
Signal SIGXCPU = 24
Signal SIGXFSZ = 25
Signal SIGVTALRM = 26
Signal SIGPROF = 27
Signal SIGWINCH = 28
Signal SIGPOLL = 29
Signal SIGIO = 29
Signal SIGPWR = 30
Signal SIGSYS = 31
Signal SIGBABY = 31
Signal SIG_BLOCK = 0
Signal SIG_UNBLOCK = 1
Signal SIG_SETMASK = 2
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