Signal

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What Wikipedia says

Signals are standardized messages sent to a running computer program to trigger specific behavior, such as quitting or error handling. They are a limited form of inter-process communication (IPC), typically used in Unix, Unix-like, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Signal (IPC)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia