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Most operating systems provide interrupt facilities, sometimes called signals either generated by the user or as a result of program failure or reaching a limit like file space.
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Unhandled signals generally terminate a program in a disorderly manner.
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Signal handlers are created so that the program behaves in a well-defined manner upon receipt of a signal.
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;Task:
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Provide a program that displays an integer on each line of output at the rate of about one per half second.
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<!-- some systems have difficulty with 1/2 second and that's not the point of this subject anyway DG-->
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Upon receipt of the SIGINT signal (often generated by the user typing ctrl-C <!-- on unix see stty -a . on windows SIGBREAK DG -->( or better yet, SIGQUIT ctrl-\ )) the program will cease outputting integers, output the number of seconds the program has run, and then the program will quit. <!-- outputting the number if seconds is also unduly complicated for this topic . Hope nobody minds these comments and I didn't really want to change the task since there were so many examples already written. see the Perl example for a more extensive use of signals. PS See discussion. If you find these edits inappropriate let me know DG-->
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