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I do think, though, that signals have some merits over the event kinds of IPC.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(computing)#Risks for the problems.

Conversely, having a thread dedicated to servicing a message queue can be very simple, inexpensive and reliable.

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