Re: perl 5.6 to perl 5.8 and signal handling

2003-07-15 Thread Michael Kleis
Hi Steve and all THX, now the script works ! as you wrote in your second mail, this is at least a documentation bug ! best regards, mikle On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 05:01 PM, Steve Grazzini wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 03:38:58PM +0200, Michael Kleis wrote: i have a question regarding th

Re: perl 5.6 to perl 5.8 and signal handling

2003-07-15 Thread Steve Grazzini
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:01:13AM -0400, Steve Grazzini wrote: > Safe Signals > > Perl used to be fragile in that signals arriving at inopportune moments > could corrupt Perl's internal state. Now Perl postpones handling of > signals until it's safe (between opcodes). > > Th

Re: perl 5.6 to perl 5.8 and signal handling

2003-07-15 Thread Steve Grazzini
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 03:38:58PM +0200, Michael Kleis wrote: > i have a question regarding the switch from perl 5.6 to perl 5.8 and the > usage of fork and signal handlers. > > I have written a script (on a debian linux (sid) box, perl 5.6.1) > that is using fork and a signal handler (if a CHLD

perl 5.6 to perl 5.8 and signal handling

2003-07-15 Thread Michael Kleis
Hi all, i have a question regarding the switch from perl 5.6 to perl 5.8 and the usage of fork and signal handlers. I have written a script (on a debian linux (sid) box, perl 5.6.1) that is using fork and a signal handler (if a CHLD signal received some cleanup function is called). After updatin