How to decode or debug the signals a process is listening to from "/proc/<PID>/status"

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Issue

  • A signal like SIGTERM appears to be getting blocked.
  • How to verify if a running process will catch a signal, or ignore it, or block it?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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