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Jamie Lokier wrote:
> I don't buy this argument. You block signals, do something, unblock
> signals. There may be a _tiny_ delay in delivering the signal
Tiny? You said yourself that fork can be expensive.
> - of
> the order of a single system call time, i.e. not significant. (That
> delay is much shorter than signal delivery time itself). No signals
> are actually _lost_,
Of course they can get lost. Normal Unix signals are not queued.
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