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    Signals are a form of inter-process communication. Hardware interrupts are generated asynchronously by hardware devices and are referred to as asynchronous interrupts. Software interrupts are referred to as synchronous interrupts and are produced by the CPU control unit after terminating an instruction, such as for exceptions or traps.

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    Signals are a form of inter-process communication. Hardware interrupts are generated asynchronously by hardware devices and are referred to as asynchronous interrupts. Software interrupts are referred to as synchronous interrupts and are produced by the CPU control unit after terminating an instruction, such as for exceptions or traps.

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    Signals are a form of inter-process communication. Hardware interrupts are generated asynchronously by hardware devices and are referred to as asynchronous interrupts. Software interrupts are referred to as synchronous interrupts and are produced by the CPU control unit after terminating an instruction, such as for exceptions or traps.

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    Interrupts

    SIGNAL : One kind of IPC.


    HARDWARE INTERRUPT: Also refered to as asynchronous interrupts and are
    generated by hardware devices at arbitrary times with respect to the
    CPU clock signals.
    SOFTWARE INTERRUPT: Also refered to as synchronous interrupts. These
    are produced by the CPU control unit while executing instructions. The
    control unit issues them only after terminating the execution of an
    instruction (eg: exceptions, trap etc).

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