diff --git a/examples/sighup-example.rs b/examples/sighup-example.rs
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+extern crate futures;
+extern crate tokio_core;
+extern crate tokio_signal;
+
+use futures::stream::Stream;
+use tokio_core::reactor::Core;
+use tokio_signal::unix::{Signal,SIGHUP};
+
+fn main() {
+    // set up a Tokio event loop
+    let mut core = Core::new().unwrap();
+
+    // on Unix, we can listen to whatever signal we want, in this case: SIGHUP
+    let sighup = Signal::new(SIGHUP, &core.handle());
+    let stream = core.run(sighup).unwrap();
+
+    println!("Waiting for SIGHUPS (Ctrl+C to quit)");
+    println!("  TIP: use `pkill -sighup sighup-example` from a second terminal to send a SIGHUP \
+                to all processes named 'sighup-example' (i.e. this binary)");
+
+    // for_each is a powerful primitive provided by the Futures crate
+    // it turns a Stream into a Future that completes after all stream-items
+    // have been completed.
+    let future = stream.for_each(|the_signal| {
+        println!("*Got a signal {}* I should probably reload my config or something", the_signal);
+        Ok(())
+    });
+
+    // Up until now, we haven't really DONE anything, just prepared
+    // now it's time to actually schedule, and thus execute, the stream
+    // on our event loop, and loop forever
+    core.run(future).unwrap();
+}