Interrupt

Sent to a process when the user presses Ctrl-C at the terminal. The default action is to terminate the process. Many programs catch it to perform a clean shutdown.

References

man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal.7.html

In this namespace

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SIGEMT SIGFPE SIGHUP SIGILL SIGINFO SIGINT SIGIO SIGIOT SIGKILL SIGPIPE SIGPOLL