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2001-01-03-21:43:39 Dan Sugalski: > I think one of the things we might want to do is figure out what people use > signals for [...] The big one I can think of is interrupting > timers. [...] (Excepting I/O signalish things, which will get > handled elsewhere) How about, goosing long-lived daemons to ask 'em to re-read their config files? The only signal code I ever wrote for perl was for that --- and never did manage to work my way around to testing the resulting code enough to convince myself it was really correct, so I never did deploy it. My sighandler just modified the value of a "use vars" package-scope scalar flag, which was then checked and dealt with in the main processing loop, right before it'd try to actually do anything. Is that code pattern safe now? If not, can we design to guarantee that it is? -BennettThread Previous | Thread Next