That works a treat - thanks
Andy
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 14:58, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote:
> Andy Ford wrote:
> > I am testing out signal (I nearly wrote single - and I'm married)
> > trapping so I can use it in a number of scrits all ready in service.
> >
>
> <funny>Beware with the anger wife reading emails... =-] </funny>
>
> > The basic concept seems relatively straight forward, however my SIGHUP
> > only seems to work once...
> >
> > $SIG{'HUP'} = \&catch_signal; # best strategy
> >
> > sub catch_signal
> > {
> > etc
> > etc
> > }
> >
> > This should be a simple one
>
> I vaguely remember of reading something about signal processing in
> the Camel Book, saying that you should try
>
> $SIG{HUP} = \&process_sighup;
>
> sub process_sighup {
> # signal processing here...
> # ...
> $SIG{HUP} = \&process_sighup;
> }
>
> But I can be wrong, of course.
> Regards.
