This piece of code helped me to find out what signals are being sent to my process:
function sig_identify($signo) {
  switch($signo) {
    case SIGFPE:    return 'SIGFPE';
    case SIGSTOP:   return 'SIGSTOP';
    case SIGHUP:    return 'SIGHUP';
    case SIGINT:    return 'SIGINT';
    case SIGQUIT:   return 'SIGQUIT';
    case SIGILL:    return 'SIGILL';
    case SIGTRAP:   return 'SIGTRAP';
    case SIGABRT:   return 'SIGABRT';
    case SIGIOT:    return 'SIGIOT';
    case SIGBUS:    return 'SIGBUS';
    case SIGPOLL:   return 'SIGPOLL';
    case SIGSYS:    return 'SIGSYS';
    case SIGCONT:   return 'SIGCONT';
    case SIGUSR1:   return 'SIGUSR1';
    case SIGUSR2:   return 'SIGUSR2';
    case SIGSEGV:   return 'SIGSEGV';
    case SIGPIPE:   return 'SIGPIPE';
    case SIGALRM:   return 'SIGALRM';
    case SIGTERM:   return 'SIGTERM';
    case SIGSTKFLT: return 'SIGSTKFLT';
    case SIGCHLD:   return 'SIGCHLD';
    case SIGCLD:    return 'SIGCLD';
    case SIGIO:     return 'SIGIO';
    case SIGKILL:   return 'SIGKILL';
    case SIGTSTP:   return 'SIGTSTP';
    case SIGTTIN:   return 'SIGTTIN';
    case SIGTTOU:   return 'SIGTTOU';
    case SIGURG:    return 'SIGURG';
    case SIGXCPU:   return 'SIGXCPU';
    case SIGXFSZ:   return 'SIGXFSZ';
    case SIGVTALRM: return 'SIGVTALRM';
    case SIGPROF:   return 'SIGPROF';
    case SIGWINCH:  return 'SIGWINCH';
    case SIGPWR:    return 'SIGPWR';
  }
}
function sig_handler($signo) {
  echo "Caught " . sig_identify($signo) . " (" . $signo  . ") on " . posix_getpid() . "\n";
}
pcntl_signal(SIGFPE, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGHUP, "sig_handler");
// pcntl_signal(SIGINT, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGQUIT, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGILL, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGTRAP, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGABRT, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGIOT, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGBUS, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGPOLL, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGSYS, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGCONT, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGUSR1, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGUSR2, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGSEGV, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGPIPE, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGALRM, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGTERM, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGSTKFLT, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGCHLD, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGCLD, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGIO, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGTSTP, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGTTIN, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGTTOU, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGURG, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGXCPU, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGXFSZ, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGVTALRM, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGPROF, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGWINCH, "sig_handler");
pcntl_signal(SIGPWR, "sig_handler");
I commented out SIGNIT, as it is the signal which is sent to your process when you press CTRL-C. If you catch this signal, you must handle it properly:
function sig_handler($signo) {
  switch($signo) {
    case SIGINT:
      // customized cleanup code
      exit; // now exit
      break;
  }
}
Otherwise the only possibility to stop your process is by sending a SIGKILL signal - you can do this on the shell by typing "kill -9 PID" (where -9 is the numerical value for SIGKILL).
Note: You cannot add a handler (i.e. ignore signals) for SIGSTOP and SIGKILL - for obvious reasons.