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@@ -252,36 +252,14 @@ Implementation The library is implemented with a QSharedMemory block which is thread safe and guarantees a race condition will not occur. It also uses a QLocalSocket to notify the main process that a new instance had been spawned and thus invoke the -`instanceStarted()` signal. - -To handle an issue on `*nix` systems, where the operating system owns the shared -memory block and if the program crashes the memory remains untouched, the -library binds to the following signals and closes the program with -`error code = 128 + signum` where signum is the number representation of the -signal listed below. Handling the signal is required in order to safely delete -the `QSharedMemory` block. Each of these signals are potentially lethal and will -results in process termination. - -* `SIGHUP` - `1`, Hangup. -* `SIGINT` - `2`, Terminal interrupt signal -* `SIGQUIT` - `3`, Terminal quit signal. -* `SIGILL` - `4`, Illegal instruction. -* `SIGABRT` - `6`, Process abort signal. -* `SIGBUS` - `7`, Access to an undefined portion of a memory object. -* `SIGFPE` - `8`, Erroneous arithmetic operation (such as division by zero). -* `SIGSEGV` - `11`, Invalid memory reference. -* `SIGSYS` - `12`, Bad system call. -* `SIGPIPE` - `13`, Write on a pipe with no one to read it. -* `SIGALRM` - `14`, Alarm clock. -* `SIGTERM` - `15`, Termination signal. -* `SIGXCPU` - `24`, CPU time limit exceeded. -* `SIGXFSZ` - `25`, File size limit exceeded. - -Additionally the library can recover from being killed with uncatchable signals -and will reset the memory block given that there are no other instances running. +`instanceStarted()` signal and for messaging the primary instance. + +Additionally the library can recover from being forcefully killed on *nix +systems and will reset the memory block given that there are no other +instances running. License ------- This library and it's supporting documentation are released under -`The MIT License (MIT)` with the exception of some of the examples distributed -under the BSD license. +`The MIT License (MIT)` with the exception of the Qt calculator examples which +is distributed under the BSD license. |