<signal.h> - question about signals

From: Jackie (Jackie200010_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 07/28/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 05:39:29 GMT

Hi everyone,
I'd like to know when and how signals are used (e.g. SIGFPE, SIGABRT,
SIGTERM, SIGSEGV, SIGINT)? Thank you so much.

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