thanks for the quick response! but could you give me an example of what syntax goes in { .... something .... } ;
so trap { ... example ... } so SIGNAL(s) would be inside the curly braces? Derek B. Smith OhioHealth IT UNIX / TSM / EDM Teams "Jayakumar Rajagopal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/16/2004 10:38 AM To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: traps in perl Try : $SIG{SIGTERM} = sub { ..something..} ; #-- in perl this is equivalent to trap '... something...' SIGTERM thanks, Jay -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 10:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: traps in perl All, Is there a method or module that allows you to create a trap? For instance, in ksh or any shell I can create a system trap that will disallow any keystroke, other than the expected user input specifically cntrl C, D, \ or U. All of these are mapped to a SIGNAL in /usr/include/sys/signal.h. thanks Derek B. Smith OhioHealth IT UNIX / TSM / EDM Teams 614-566-4145