On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:59:06PM +0200, Anton Berezin wrote:
[...]
> What about preventing the master process from destroying itself? Right
> now I can only come up with:
>
> In master's _start:
>
> $kernel->yield('sleeping_state');
>
> sub sleeping_state
> {
> ...
> $kernel->delay('sleeping_state', SOME_TIME);
> }
>
> There should be some kind of canonical (for POE) way of just sitting
> there doing nothing waiting for signals.
Unfortunately there isn't. The signal handling guts were written
before I understood how they would be used, so they often don't work
the way people want them to. Bleah!
I plan to revise them (see the TODO file). Until then, your delay
loop is probably the best way to keep the parent process alive.
-- Rocco Caputo / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / poe.perl.org / poe.sourceforge.net
