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Re: [perl #82580] Signals not cleared by fork

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From:
Bo Lindbergh
Date:
January 23, 2011 04:44
Subject:
Re: [perl #82580] Signals not cleared by fork
Message ID:
9C622260-02F2-46EC-9D68-8D04F369CEA0@stacken.kth.se
2011-01-21 kl. 22.37 skrev Philip Gwyn:
> There is a problem with this though: Unless I mis-understand how signal
> masking works, signals that arrive between mask() call land the unmask()
> call (in the parent) will be lost.

You misunderstand.  It's ignored signals that are lost, not blocked ones.


/Bo Lindbergh


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