On Mar 21, 2004, at 8:55 AM, Mark Alldritt wrote:
[..]
I take if from your responses that Perl doesn't automatically restart
system
calls after a signal is processed as Programming Perl and the Perl
Cookbook
suggest it does.
I don't actually own the code that is doing the read, so its not easy
On Mar 19, 2004, at 1:31 PM, Joel wrote:
I'll toss in my two cents here, since I've done something like this
before in a production-type environment.
IMHO, The best thing to do would be to have your signal handler set a
flag (in the manner described by drieux) and have your loop react to
that
Hello,
I'm trying to understand how signals and restartable system calls interact.
Take this example:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$SIG{USR2} = sub { print Here I Am\n; };
print Starting...\n;
my $abc;
while (read STDIN, $abc, 20) {
print $abc\n;
}
print Done\n;
If I run this script and then send a
On Mar 19, 2004, at 11:34 AM, Mark Alldritt wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to understand how signals and restartable system calls
interact.
Take this example:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$SIG{USR2} = sub { print Here I Am\n; };
print Starting...\n;
my $abc;
while (read STDIN, $abc, 20) {
print $abc\n;
}
On Mar 19, 2004, at 9:34 AM, Mark Alldritt wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to understand how signals and restartable system calls
interact.
Take this example:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$SIG{USR2} = sub { print Here I Am\n; };
print Starting...\n;
my $abc;
while (read STDIN, $abc, 20) {
print $abc\n;
}
Hi folks,
I'll toss in my two cents here, since I've done something like this
before in a production-type environment.
IMHO, The best thing to do would be to have your signal handler set a
flag (in the manner described by drieux) and have your loop react to that
flag when it changes. This is a
