[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Signal handling and the fake threads

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The names are the names from the UNIX documentation. While the signal names are mostly the same, there are a few that have different names because of history. Original UNIX was written for PDP-11 and some names come from the PDP-11 processor architecture. A few were changed later on. there are also three different signal handling API’s. The original one had some serious flaws. While it is still in the C library, no one should use it except for the simplest possible use cases (like, terminate process after n seconds, with no cleanup)

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