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At 02:20 PM 1/9/01 +0000, Alan Burlison wrote:
>Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
> > and as you can install any perl subroutine as a signal handler, I'd infer
> > that any part of perl might actually be running in a signal handler.
> > [and might die back out to an eval that started before %SIG{} was touched,
> > so I don't even think the idea of switching to sigsetjump() when the first
> > %SIG{} assignment is made would work]
> >
> > I don't think it's possible to win.
>
>No, I think you are right. However the whole
>signal/eval/die/setjmp/longjmp mess is pretty much broken anyway, what
>with the non-MT safeness and the current bizzare behaviour illustrated
>by Raphaels test script.
>
>I'm still intending to disable sigsetjmp - I havn't heard any decent
>reason for it being used.
>
>Roll on perl6...
Well, besides "Just don't *do* that," any thoughts on how to handle this
properly in p6?
Dan
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