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diff --git a/glibc/signal/signal_thread.mdwn b/glibc/signal/signal_thread.mdwn index 28855dbd..5341b1ab 100644 --- a/glibc/signal/signal_thread.mdwn +++ b/glibc/signal/signal_thread.mdwn @@ -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 |