Hello There, > The book also states that you can not IGNORE or trap a A KILL or STOP > signal. Is it still the case with Perl 5.8 and Linux kernel 2.4x?
That's a fact of *NIX life I am afraid: KILL is unstoppable (ignore), as is SIGSTOP - they provide the user/admin with a "surefire way of either killing or stopping a process" --Stevens. And, as catching these would also enable you to ignore them, you cannot do that either! I did not read the whole thread, but if you are doing more than just handling error conditions/froceful termination from the kernel, you should be aware that signals hanve slightly different behaviors across the *NIX spectrum. This is particularly relevant if you take to blocking them, or if you want them to interrupt/restart the so called "slow system calls". -Federico _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
