[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Signal handling and the fake threads

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Hi Gus! Yes, signal 7 is SIGEMT on HP-UX. In Progress V10.2B on HP-UX it was used by broker to notify the local clients to check Usrtodie flag. But the client's sessions handled SIGEMT as HANGUP signal. Since V11 Progress on HP-UX uses SIGTRAP instead of SIGEMT. Progress on Solaris and AIX still uses SIGEMT. All Progress versions on Linux use SIGUSR2 for the same purpose. I named them as a “disconnect” signal. But my point was: the fake threads are not specific to SIGHUP signals. Any handled signal has a chance to cause a “dissociative identity disorder” of a Progress session.

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