Hello everybody, I need some help with the following issue.

I am overwriting the default signal handler for TSTP signal, which will increment a flag. After this, I want the program to be suspended, so I can send it to background.

I tried to send the STOP signal after the program resumes execution, but the problem is that that can be anytime, and I want to keep the code relatively clean.

I also tried to send the signal from inside the signal handler, but that causes some core dumps from time to time. Another thing that I tried is to tie the flag, and in the STORE method send the STOP, but this also gets executed when handling the signal.

Is there a way that I can maybe call STOP on resume, or call the default signal handler after I increment my flag?

Thanks in advance!

In reply to Suspending after catching TSTP by fanedd

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