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Re: perl IS an event loop (was Re: Speaking of signals...)

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Nick Ing-Simmons
Date:
January 8, 2001 07:21
Subject:
Re: perl IS an event loop (was Re: Speaking of signals...)
Message ID:
200101081521.PAA19881@mikado.tiuk.ti.com
Bart Lateur <bart.lateur@skynet.be> writes:
>
>Apropos safe signals, isn't it possible to let perl6 handle avoiding
>zombie processes internally? What use does having to do wait() yourself,
>have anyway?

Valid point - perl could have a CHLD handler in C and stash away returned
status to pass to wait() when it did get called.


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Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
Via, but not speaking for: Texas Instruments Ltd.
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