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signal.7: Some reworking of Michal Sekletar's text 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -317,11 +317,14 @@ If multiple instances of a standard signal are generated while
that signal is blocked,
then only one instance of the signal is marked as pending
(and the signal will be delivered just once when it is unblocked).
Note that the
In the case where a standard signal is already pending, the
.I siginfo_t
structure associated with the signal already in queue is not overwritten
on arrival of subsequent instances of the same signal hence the process would
receive metadata associated with the first instance of the signal.
structure (see
.BR sigaction (2))
associated with that signal is not overwritten
on arrival of subsequent instances of the same signal.
Thus, the process will receive the information
associated with the first instance of the signal.
.\"
.SS Signal numbering for standard signals
The numeric value for each signal is given in the table below.