Poke a stick at??? what does it mean?
I can't understand what it means. 'pock a stick at'
I quoted that use case from my computer programming book.
"For lack of a better analogy, signals are a way to poke a stick at a process. "
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When in the Unix or Linux operating systems, or some of their derivatives,
you send a signal to a process, the process receiving the signal might
change its behavior (following a predefined pattern, of course),
so metaphorically you are penetrating or wounding the process with a stick,
or lance.
The best author describing process signaling is in my view Mr. Richard Stevens;
in his life, that was too short, he wrote magnificent books about Unix systems.
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I hope some else has a better answer.
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