On Dec 31, 2004, at 8:27 AM, muppet wrote:
On Dec 31, 2004, at 6:59 AM, Jan Hudec wrote:That is, just add a special source, that will be checked in every iteration, it will look at the signal flag in perl interpreter and if it's set, it will just make a dummy call to the interpreter to let it handle the signal. Minimal overhead and no need to hack about with %SIG and things like that. This option was not mentioned in the message cited above.
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i'll play with this over the weekend and see what i can come up with.
quick, easy, and works like a charm.attached are a patch to implement this against 1.071 and a program to exercise it. what do you think?
i'd also like suggestions on how & where to work into the perl-level docs an explanation of this stuff.
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