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`onSignalReceived`

Trap OS signals

Description

onSignalReceived events are triggered by OS signals.

The following quote from Wikipedia explains what signals are:

Signals are standardized messages sent to a running program to trigger specific behavior, such as quitting or error handling. They are a limited form of inter-process communication (IPC), typically used in Unix, Unix-like, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems.

A signal is an asynchronous notification sent to a process or to a specific thread within the same process to notify it of an event. Common uses of signals are to interrupt, suspend, terminate or kill a process.

This event is designed to be used in shell scripts. While this event can be used with the shell in interactive mode (ie from the REPL prompt), this might result in unexpected behaviour. Thus it is only recommended to use onSignalReceived for shell scripts.

Usage

event onSignalReceived name=SIGNAL { code block }

!event onSignalReceived [SIGNAL]name

Valid Interrupts

SIGHUP “Signal hangup” – triggered when a controlling terminal is closed (eg the terminal emulator closed)
SIGINT “Signal interrupt” – triggered when a user interrupts a process, typically via ctrl+c
SIGQUIT “Signal quit” – when the user requests that the process quits and performs a core dump
SIGTERM “Signal terminate” – triggered by a request for a processes termination. Similar to SIGINT
SIGUSR1 “Signal user 1” – user defined
SIGUSR2 “Signal user 2” – user defined
SIGWINCH “Signal window change” – triggered when the TTY (eg terminal emulator) is resized

Payload

The following payload is passed to the function via stdin:

{
    "Name": "",
    "Interrupt": {
        "Name": "",
        "Signal": ""
    }
}

Name

This is the namespaced name – ie the name and operation.

Interrupt/Name

This is the name you specified when defining the event.

Interrupt/Signal

This is the signal you specified when defining the event.

Valid interrupt operation values are specified below. All interrupts / signals are UPPERCASE strings.

Event Return

This event doesn’t have any $EVENT_RETURN parameters.

Examples

Interrupt ‘SIGINT’

event onSignalReceived example=SIGINT {
    out "SIGINT received, not quitting"
}

Detail

The interrupts listed above are a subset of what is supported on each operating system. Please consult your operating systems docs for details on each signal and what their function is.

Windows Support

While Windows doesn’t officially support signals, the following POSIX signals are emulated:

var interrupts = map[string]syscall.Signal{
    "SIGHUP":  syscall.SIGHUP,
    "SIGINT":  syscall.SIGINT,
    "SIGQUIT": syscall.SIGQUIT,
    "SIGILL":  syscall.SIGILL,
    "SIGTRAP": syscall.SIGTRAP,
    "SIGABRT": syscall.SIGABRT,
    "SIGBUS":  syscall.SIGBUS,
    "SIGFPE":  syscall.SIGFPE,
    "SIGKILL": syscall.SIGKILL,
    "SIGSEGV": syscall.SIGSEGV,
    "SIGPIPE": syscall.SIGPIPE,
    "SIGALRM": syscall.SIGALRM,
    "SIGTERM": syscall.SIGTERM,
}

Plan 9 Support

Plan 9 is not supported.

Stdout

Stdout and stderr are both written to the terminal.

Order of execution

Interrupts are run in alphabetical order. So an event named “alfa” would run before an event named “zulu”. If you are writing multiple events and the order of execution matters, then you can prefix the names with a number, eg 10_jump

Namespacing

The onSignalReceived event differs a little from other events when it comes to the namespacing of interrupts. Typically you cannot have multiple interrupts with the same name for an event. However with onPrompt their names are further namespaced by the interrupt name. In layman’s terms this means example=SIGINT wouldn’t overwrite example=SIGQUIT.

The reason for this namespacing is because, unlike other events, you might legitimately want the same name for different interrupts.

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