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     1  The following quote from [Wikipedia explains what signals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(IPC))
     2  are:
     3  
     4  > Signals are standardized messages sent to a running program to trigger
     5  > specific behavior, such as quitting or error handling. They are a limited
     6  > form of inter-process communication (IPC), typically used in Unix, Unix-like,
     7  > and other POSIX-compliant operating systems.
     8  >
     9  > A signal is an asynchronous notification sent to a process or to a specific
    10  > thread within the same process to notify it of an event. Common uses of
    11  > signals are to interrupt, suspend, terminate or kill a process.