Sam Tregar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>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.
POSIX signals cannot be pushed out - essentially that is what has happened
in perl1..5 - we need to pull 'em in.
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Nick Ing-Simmons
