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On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:23:58PM -0000, Doug Sibley wrote:
> In perl-5.8.0-55 (and others likely), when I do a perl program:
5.8.0-55 is not a version number used by Perl. It sounds like some
number assigned by your operating system vendor. Is this from a Redhat
package?
> sleep;
> exit; # or exit(0);
>
> then give a SIGALRM to to the process, I always get the exit code of 14
> (from the following c program):
I can repeat this with 5.6.0 and 5.8.0 on OS X.
> I think this is a bug in perl.
Doesn't seem like one to me. The program was killed by a SIGALRM and
exited abnormally. Your exit(0) is never reached.
perlipc states that Perl "does the default thing" to handle a signal if
you don't tell it otherwise. The OS X (ie. BSD) signals(3) man page states
that the default action for SIGALRM is to terminate the process.
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Michael G Schwern schwern@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/
I do have a cause though. It is obscenity. I'm for it.
-- Tom Lehrer "Smut"
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