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authorWolfgang Karall <office@karall-edv.at>2015-02-24 12:36:51 +0100
committerWolfgang Karall <office@karall-edv.at>2015-02-24 12:36:51 +0100
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document SIGUSR1 in manual page
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@@ -210,7 +210,9 @@ your ``status'' character, typically control-T, although on some
platforms, such as Mac OS X, the ``status'' character is not set by
default, so you must set it with
.BR stty (1)
-in order to use it) and will continue capturing packets.
+in order to use it) and will continue capturing packets. On platforms that
+do not support the SIGINFO signal, the same can be achieved by using the
+SIGUSR1 signal.
.LP
Reading packets from a network interface may require that you have
special privileges; see the