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

[Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org>]

At 02:49 PM 1/12/00 -0500, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
>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.

s/want to do/think they're limited to doing/;

Coming from a platform with very strong asynchronous leanings (VMS), it's 
been my experience that people with a mainly Unix or Unix-inspired 
background just don't expect a whole lot from their async sub-system. 
Probably because signals are so terribly limited and the only other 
experiences they have are with X and, well, the less said the better... :)

					Dan

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