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package org.eclipse.virgo.nano.core;

/**
 * {@link AbortableSignal} is an interface for signalling successful or unsuccessful completion.
 * <p />
 * 
 * <strong>Concurrent Semantics</strong><br />
 * 
 * Implementations of this class must be thread safe.
 * 
 */
public interface AbortableSignal extends Signal {

	/**
	 * Notifies the abortion of this Signal, there has been no error but the signal will not complete. 
	 * If signalFailure or signalCompletion has already been called, the behaviour is undefined.
	 */
	void signalAborted();
	
}