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diff --git a/glibc/signals.mdwn b/glibc/signals.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 40fdc0e1..00000000 --- a/glibc/signals.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,32 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -*[[UNIX]] signals* are a means to asynchronously invoke a specific function -(*signal handler*). This may impact on [[system call]]s that are executing at -the same time in that they may be completely aborted, return incomplete -results, scheduled for restarting, or cause signal delivery to be blocked upon -the system call's completion. - -An explanation can be found in the relevant standards, an overview, including -UNIX signals' deficiencies is given in {{$unix#2010_brown_ghosts_3}}, for -example. - -The UNIX signalling mechanism is implemented for the GNU Hurd by means of a -separate signal-handling thread that is part of every process. This makes -handling of signals a separate thread of control. - - * [[SA_SIGINFO, SA_SIGACTION|open_issues/sa_siginfo_sa_sigaction]] - - -# External - - * {{$unix#djb_self-pipe}}. - - * {{$unix#rjk_fork}}. |