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From:
Maik Hentsche
Date:
June 4, 2010 02:47
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] Attempt at improving the perlipc docs
Message ID:
20100604114742.4706d34c@siegfried.osrc.amd.com
Hi,
after being back from vacation I see no further improvement suggestions
for my doc patch. I implemented those I did receive before. Please find
the updated patch attached. It applies to the current git HEAD. For
those of you who do not fully remember the topic here comes a
description of the issue I'm trying to solve.

I was recently confused by the way signal handlers using wait() behave
in collaboration with qx() or system().

When you have a signal handler for SIGCHLD that calls wait() and use
qx() or system() in your parent, the signal handler will be called.
Yet, because qx/system already wait()ed for their child the wait in the
signal handler would block. I doubt everyone will understand this in
the first place. Thus, I wrote an improvement for the documentation to
tell people about this issue.

so long
Maik

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Maik Hentsche <maik@linux-tage.de>
Tel.:0177/6875926

http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de


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