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| pattern | Poison Pill | poison-pill | /patterns/poison-pill/ | Other |
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Intent
Poison Pill is known predefined data item that allows to provide graceful shutdown for separate distributed consumption process.
Applicability
Use the Poison Pill idiom when
- need to send signal from one thread/process to another to terminate