Re: [ID 19991229.003] perl 5.005_03 core dumps -- singal

[Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 10:20:18AM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 09:24 PM 1/11/00 -0500, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> >But since safe signals are not possible (see XSUBs), and require a
> >significant rewrite of the most important "do a lot" Perl opcodes (at
> >any checkpoint we should be ready for a longjump), this is still
> >rather moot.
> 
> Safe immediate signal handlers in perl aren't possible.

As I demonstrated, they are for a large (though not enormous) subset
of things people want to do in signal handlers.

Ilya

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Larry Wall <larry@wall.org>
Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org>

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