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From:
M.J.T. Guy
Date:
October 1, 1999 06:02
Subject:
Re: deprecating SIGDIE
Message ID:
E11X2Ku-0006vT-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk
Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com> wrote
> The test is usually needed. The eval will still return, unless handler has 
> rendered the fail entirely harmless you typically need to 
> avoid executing something ...

The handler can't "render the fail entirely harmless".   It's only option
is to change the message, by issuing another die().

Unless it's *really* evil, and goes exit().


Mike Guy

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