On 4/17/05, Volker Wysk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm trying to install a handler for the TERM signal:
>
> import System.Posix.Signals
> import System.Posix.Unistd
> import Monad
>
> main =
>do installHandler sigTERM handler Nothing
> sequence (repeat (putStrLn "bla" >> sleep 5))
> return ()
>
> handler = Catch (putStrLn "caught SIGTERM")
> -- handler = Ignore
>
> When you type ^C, the current pause gets cut short, but the program continues
> to output "bla". It then terminates after another three to five "bla"'s.
> Installing a signal handler has no effect at all, regardless of whether it's
> Ignore or Catch (...).
>
> /tmp $ ghc -o sig sig.hs -package posix
> /tmp $ ./sig
> bla
> bla
> bla
> bla
> bla
> sig: interrupted
>
> I'm using GHC 6.4 on Debian Linux.
>From sleep(3): "sleep() makes the current process sleep until
'seconds' seconds have elapsed or a signal arrives which is not
ignored."
So 'sleep' returns when a signal arrives and C-c emits an interrupt
signal (sigINT) and not a termination signal (sigTERM), which is why
the pause gets cut short.
You may wanna use Control.Concurrent.threadDelay instead of sleep.
--
Friendly,
Lemmih
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