Unix Signals and Their Integers

I always find that this information is too far buried in the include files or requires too many Google searches. So, they’re now printed here both for your convenience and mine. No doubt that some of them may not be standard on all Unixes, but the first nine are generally the only ones that are relevant.

Name Integer
SIGHUP 1
SIGINT 2
SIGQUIT 3
SIGILL 4
SIGTRAP 5
SIGABRT 6
SIGFPE 8
SIGKILL 9
SIGBUS 10
SIGSEGV 11
SIGSYS 12
SIGPIPE 13
SIGALRM 14
SIGTERM 15
SIGUSR1 16
SIGUSR2 17
SIGCHLD 18
SIGTSTP 20
SIGURG 21
SIGPOLL 22
SIGSTOP 23
SIGCONT 25
SIGTTIN 26
SIGTTOU 27
SIGVTALRM 28
SIGPROF 29
SIGXCPU 30
SIGXFSZ 31
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