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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2011-07-20 14:04:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2011-07-20 14:04:59 +0200 |
| commit | 3254cc1f93c366aba162e38fac622b83058ad471 (patch) | |
| tree | 702173d8eb18cdf9889e924570163bc49b472872 /glibc/signal.mdwn | |
| parent | 58e262611fe8cae64db2e7989280d4e23e9d806d (diff) | |
| parent | 33b91f458ed0f728933f2d5aa5ec2ae1a86a9d4d (diff) | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'IKR/master'
Diffstat (limited to 'glibc/signal.mdwn')
| -rw-r--r-- | glibc/signal.mdwn | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/glibc/signal.mdwn b/glibc/signal.mdwn index 84153cff..727247ac 100644 --- a/glibc/signal.mdwn +++ b/glibc/signal.mdwn @@ -10,8 +10,11 @@ is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] The [[*UNIX signalling mechanism*|unix/signal]] is implemented for the GNU Hurd -by means of a separate *[[signal_thread]]* that is part of every +by means of a separate *[[signal_thread]]* that is part of every user-space [[process]]. This makes handling of signals a separate thread of control. +[[GNU Mach|microkernel/mach/gnumach]] itself has no idea what a signal is and +`kill` is not a [[system_call]] (as it typically is in a [[UNIX]] system): it's +implemented in [[glibc]]. * [[SA_SIGINFO, SA_SIGACTION|open_issues/sa_siginfo_sa_sigaction]] |