.IR "signal handler" ,
a programmer-defined function that is automatically invoked
when the signal is delivered.
-(By default, the signal handler is invoked on the
+.PP
+By default, a signal handler is invoked on the
normal process stack.
It is possible to arrange that the signal handler
uses an alternate stack; see
.BR sigaltstack (2)
-for a discussion of how to do this and when it might be useful.)
+for a discussion of how to do this and when it might be useful.
.PP
The signal disposition is a per-process attribute:
in a multithreaded application, the disposition of a