European Commission extends review of Nokia’s planned acquisition of NAVTEQ
Espoo, Finland – Nokia announced today that the European Commission has initiated a Phase II review of the pending acquisition…
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A signal is a limited form of inter-process communication used in Unix, Unix-like, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. It is an asynchronous notification sent to a process or to a specific thread within the same process in order to notify it of an event that occurred. When a signal is sent, the operating system interrupts the target process’s normal flow of execution. Execution can be interrupted during any non-atomic instruction. If the process has previously registered a signal handler, that routine is executed. Otherwise the default signal handler is executed. Signals have been around since the 1970s Bell Labs Unix and are more recently specified in the POSIX standard.
Signal handlers can be installed with the signal() system call. If a signal handler is not installed for a particular signal, the default handler is used. Otherwise the signal is intercepted and the signal handler is invoked. The process can also specify two default behaviors, without creating a handler:…
Espoo, Finland – Nokia announced today that the European Commission has initiated a Phase II review of the pending acquisition…