On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Hugo wrote:
I believe that this (or take2) might cause a problem for code like:
sub handler { print "sig handled" }
my $handlesub = "handler";
[... something reads $handlesub in numeric context ...]
$SIG{ALRM} = $handlesub;
i suppose the handler should
i suppose the handler should not be restored if it was Perl's, something
along the lines of (on top of take2 patch):
Exactly! this kind of thing is common in programs that do sigmasks
or tty mode masks. The typical mistake is
set noecho
do something
unset noecho
or
block
In [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Doug MacEachern writes:
:when 'local $SIG{ALRM} = sub {...}' goes out of scope, magic_setsig() sets
:the SIGALRM handler to SIG_DFL, rather than the original handler. this
:causes quite a bit of trouble running inside of apache, since 'local
:$SIG{ALRM}' unhooks the apache
when 'local $SIG{ALRM} = sub {...}' goes out of scope, magic_setsig() sets
the SIGALRM handler to SIG_DFL, rather than the original handler. this
causes quite a bit of trouble running inside of apache, since 'local
$SIG{ALRM}' unhooks the apache SIGALRM handler for the life of that
proccess.
the
