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It's safe to call this function from any thread. The callback will be called on the
loop thread.
+ .. note::
+ :c:func:`uv_async_send` is `async-signal-safe <http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal-safety.7.html>`_.
+ It's safe to call this function from a signal handler.
+
.. warning::
libuv will coalesce calls to :c:func:`uv_async_send`, that is, not every call to it will
yield an execution of the callback. For example: if :c:func:`uv_async_send` is called 5