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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Newsgroups: comp.programming.threads,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Signal handlers writing into pipes
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:21:37 +0200
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> The problematic issue is when SIGFOO fills the pipe, causing SIGBAR to get
> dropped on the floor. That seems exceedingly unlikely, but I suppose you
> could use one pipe per signal.

Can the probability for a full pipe be calculated for the discussed use case?
How big is the pipe capacity on the various software platforms?

Regards,
Markus