Enabling Signals in kernel

* Enabling Signals in kernel
@ 2011-04-12 16:06 Vijay Ram Chitrapu
  2011-04-13  1:01 ` Haojian Zhuang
  2011-04-13 17:20 ` Missing 1GB RAM, where is it? Andrzej Kardas
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 16+ messages in thread
From: Vijay Ram Chitrapu @ 2011-04-12 16:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kernelnewbies

Hi experts,

I am using MVL6.0 in my project and have customized the kernel as per
the requirement. However, i am facing a problem where the Ctrl+C
signal doesn't get caught (or not sure if it is even generated) on the
target platform. I have tried using the "trap" at the shell to capture
the signal but the signal just doesn't get caught. Below is what i
have done to try the trap way

trap " " INT
echo "Catching Ctrl+C signal"
trap INT
sleep 5

Putting this piece of code into a script doesn't catch the signal
SIGINT (ctrl+c). To understand if it was a problem with the shell, i
wrote a C code to register my own signal handler for SIGINT signal. To
verify the correctness of the code, i executed the C code on the HOST
server and it works well there (signal handler gets invoked when
ctrl+c is pressed). Whereas, the same C code doesn't catch the Ctr+C
signal in the target platform.

Can someone tell me if there is any specific way to identify is there
a way or rather is there a need to enable the signals explicitly while
creating the config file for the kernel? Below is the output of "stty
-a" command at the shell where i need to catch the Ctrl+C signal.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/ # stty -a
speed 115200 baud; rows 24; columns 80;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
eol2 = <undef>; swtch = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R;
werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd cs8 hupcl -cstopb cread clocal crtscts
-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff
-iuclc -ixany -imaxbel
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt
echoctl echoke
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Regards,
Vijay

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