Docker - Trapping Signals inside a Container

A signal is a message to a process from the kernel to notify that some condition has occurred. When a signal is issued to a process, the process is interrupted and a signal handler is executed. If there is no signal handler, the default handler is called instead. A Docker container will also receive signals. In docker , we have two...

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Linux - Trapping Signals

It is a general practice to interrupt a running program by passing a signal to the program or some times there may be situations that you don’t want users of your script to interrupt or exit in between by passing signals.  A signal is a message to a process from the kernel to notify that some condition has occurred. For example, When you press the “ctrl + c” while running a program we are basically sending a signal to...

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