Signal (IPC)
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signal-ipc-167-8287875
title:
Signal (IPC)
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Signals are standardized messages sent to a running program to trigger specific behavior, such as quitting or error handling. They are a limited form of inter-process communication (IPC), typically used in Unix, Unix-like, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. A signal is an asynchronous notification sent to a process or to a specific thread within the same process to notify it of an event. Common uses of signals are to interrupt, suspend, terminate or kill a process. Signals originated i
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Form of inter-process communication in computer systems
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(IPC)
date created:
2004-08-28T23:03:08Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T09:45:59Z
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