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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2011-07-20 22:11:55 +0200
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2011-07-20 22:11:55 +0200
commit3a8b10d40f96a6252ad744c5a410359985fd3358 (patch)
treeb209ce1483117a41bf0435902957d679aefb8354 /glibc/signal
parentf4ccf1f65a28fe61f268f75db9b575b716fe2cc5 (diff)
parent9c5d5fdd54d403540766dae48f8f7875dbed551b (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of flubber:~hurd-web/hurd-web
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@@ -8,6 +8,13 @@ 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]]."]]"""]]
+For delivering a signal, Mach forwards an `msg_sig_post` message from the
+invoker of `kill` to the target process. The target process' [[signal_thread]]
+job is it to listen to such messages and to set up signal handler contexts in
+other threads.
+
+---
+
[[!tag open_issue_documentation]]
<braunr> bugs around signals are very tricky