signals on the bus

[Thiago Macieira]

Kevin DeKorte wrote:
>I have a question concerning the lifespan of a message on the bus.
>
>If I have an app that runs and periodically sends a message that is of
>signal type and nothing picks it up. What happens to that message?

If nothing picks it up, nothing picked it up. Therefore, it went the way 
of the blackhole.

Messages don't have lifetimes. Once the bus receives it, it relays it to 
whomever is interested. Then it drops it and moves on.

>Does 
>it just sit around on the bus. Does it just get dropped since nothing is
>registered to process that signal?


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