SIGKILL signal handling

Question

If a linux process is waiting for I/O (i.e it is in SLEEP state) and a SIGKILL signal is issued against it, upon termination (STOPPED

Answer 1

In addition to jim mcnamara's answer:

SIGKILL (kill -9) cannot be handled.

See the answer at https://stackoverflow.com/a/2541618/1456519 for more.