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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2019-07-13 12:17:21 -0600
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2019-07-13 12:18:08 -0600
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signal.7: Minor text rework
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@@ -84,12 +84,13 @@ or catch the signal with a
.IR "signal handler" ,
a programmer-defined function that is automatically invoked
when the signal is delivered.
-(By default, the signal handler is invoked on the
+.PP
+By default, a signal handler is invoked on the
normal process stack.
It is possible to arrange that the signal handler
uses an alternate stack; see
.BR sigaltstack (2)
-for a discussion of how to do this and when it might be useful.)
+for a discussion of how to do this and when it might be useful.
.PP
The signal disposition is a per-process attribute:
in a multithreaded application, the disposition of a