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Postings from October 2003
http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfunc/sleep.html says "May be interrupted if the process receives a signal such as SIGALRM" (as do the O'Reilly series of perl books) which led me to believe that I could sleep until I sent a SIGALRM at which point the process would continue. You may wish to update either the behavior or comments of the sleep function. - Doug On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 09:20, Michael G Schwern wrote: > 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. -- Doug Sibley <das@decisionsoft.com>