Re: Speaking of signals...

[Sam Tregar]

On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Dan Sugalski wrote:

> I think one of the things we might want to do is figure out what people use
> signals for and see if we can abstract out some of that functionality
> without actually exposing signals. (From an internals standpoint, at least)

Well, one thing people use signals for is IPC with non-Perl processes.  I
think that if you're want to continue to support that then we need an
interface to real, broken though they may be, POSIX signals.  Maybe the
code gets pushed out of the core, but it still needs to be somewhere.

-sam