Patent ID: 7849467
Filing Date: 2010-12-07
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method, implemented in a computer, for handling a signal received at an application context, said application context employing a first remote kernel service implemented in a first server context, comprising: receiving at said first remote kernel service in the computer, from said application context, a first signal corresponding to the signal received at said application context, wherein said application context is different from said first server context in which said first remote kernel service resides; ascertaining, using a first signal action vector file associated with said first server context, a first action code associated with said first signal, wherein said first signal action vector file has entries corresponding to a plurality of pseudo-handlers that are not associated with any meaningful address; if said first action code represents a particular one of the pseudo-handlers, aborting said first remote kernel service; ascertaining, prior to sending said first signal from said application context to said first remote kernel service, a second action code associated with said first signal; and ignoring said first signal, thereby causing said first signal not to be sent from said application context to said first remote kernel service, if said second action code represents an ignore action.