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From:
Ilya Zakharevich
Date:
September 30, 1999 10:43
Subject:
Re: deprecating SIGDIE
Message ID:
199909301743.NAA27055@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu
Tom Christiansen writes:
> The code patch to restore $SIG{__DIE__} to its intended behaviour
> is trivial:

> But in that cases, patches would also be needed for:
> 
>     pod/perldelta.pod
>     pod/perlfunc.pod
>     pod/perlvar.pod
> 
>     t/op/die.t
>     t/op/eval.t
>     t/op/ref.t
>     t/op/runlevel.t

And endless programs/modules which rely on the current
well-established semantic of __DIE__.  If you want a pseudosignal
__FATAL__, call it like this.

Ilya

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