Re: Async signals and GMainLoop

[Andrew Pimlott <gtk-perl-list andrew pimlott net>]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:00:36AM -0500, muppet wrote:
> the key thing to note here, however is the "at strategic 'safe' points" 
> *later* in the script's execution.  that means control must return to 
> the interpreter for your handler to run.  in your test case, the SIGINT 
> comes when the interpreter is blocking on the call to 
> g_main_loop_run()...  the interpreter never reaches the point where it 
> sees that it needs to run the handler!

After the signal handler runs, some call in g_main_loop_run returns
EINTR, right?  Does g_main_loop_run just go back to sleep when this
happens?  Shouldn't it communicate this to apps?  If it did, gtk-perl
could easily run the deferred signal handler, right?

Andrew