See page 618 for the 30 events and corresponding symbolic name for the event numbers.
Here are a few:
| Number | Name | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | SIGFPE | Floating Point Exception |
| 9 | SIGKILL | terminate the receiving process |
| 17 | SIGCHLD | Child terminates - sent to parent |
| 2 | SIGINT | Interrupt from keyboard (e.g. ctrl-c) |
| 20 | SIGSTP | Stop (suspend) signal from terminal( ctrl-z) |
| 18 | SIGCONT | Continue process if stopped |