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diff --git a/glibc/signal.mdwn b/glibc/signal.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 727247ac..00000000 --- a/glibc/signal.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,35 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009, 2010, 2011 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]]."]]"""]] - -The [[*UNIX signalling mechanism*|unix/signal]] is implemented for the GNU Hurd -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]] - - * Why does `kill` hang sometimes? - - <youpi> kill send the signal to the process - <youpi> if the process is hung, killing waits - <youpi> signals should be just asynchronous, but apparently for some - reason Roland & co wanted some synchronization - - [[!taglink open_issue_glibc]] - - -# Further Reading - - * {{$unix#djb_self-pipe}}. - - * {{$unix#rjk_fork}}. |