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### 17.3 Giving your Program a Signal

`signal signal`

  Resume execution where your program stopped, but immediately give it the signal signal. The signal can be the name or the number of a signal. For example, on many systems `signal 2` and `signal SIGINT` are both ways of sending an interrupt signal.

  Alternatively, if signal is zero, continue execution without giving a signal. This is useful when your program stopped on account of a signal and would ordinarily see the signal when resumed with the `continue` command; ‘`signal 0`’ causes it to resume without a signal.

  `signal` does not repeat when you press `RET` a second time after executing the command.

Invoking the `signal` command is not the same as invoking the `kill` utility from the shell. Sending a signal with `kill` causes GDB to decide what to do with the signal depending on the signal handling tables (see Signals). The `signal` command passes the signal directly to your program.