[perl #77772] SIG_PENDING_DIE_COUNT _way_ too low

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This is a bug report for perl from perlbug@plan9.de,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.10.1.


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[Please describe your issue here]

I am not sure what the purpose of SIG_PENDING_DIE_COUNT and correspondign
code is, but the value (120) is *way* too low.

This means that, when your process is busy but needs to catch e.g. SIGINT,
then 3-4s of pressing ctrl-c will simply exit perl, which I personally
find hardly professional (and could even have security implications as
this is rather extreme action-at-a-distance - at least 18 years of perl
and unix development didn't prepare me for sudden death of a program that
relies on catching sigint in crucial moments).

I have no idea how else to argue my case, but please consider increasing
it to something more reasonable, such as 1e9 or so (that will catch the
weird signal-catching loop), or consider removing the code - since signals
are external, I don't see why perl should panic when something else
signals it multiple times.

Thanks for reading this :)

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Flags:
    category=core
    severity=wishlist
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Site configuration information for perl 5.10.1:

Configured by Marc Lehmann at Wed May  5 10:53:04 CEST 2010.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 10 subversion 1) configuration:
   
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.26-2-amd64, archname=amd64-linux
    uname='linux cerebro 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 smp thu nov 5 02:23:12 utc 2009 x86_64 gnulinux '
    config_args='-Duselargefiles -Dxxxxuse64bitint -Uuse64bitall -Dusemymalloc=n -Dcc=gcc -Dccflags=-ggdb -gdwarf-2 -g3 -Dcppflags=-DPERL_ARENA_SIZE=65536 -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/opt/include -Doptimize=-O6 -funroll-loops -fno-strict-aliasing -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Dldflags=-L/opt/perl/lib -L/opt/lib -Dlibs=-ldl -lm -lcrypt -Darchname=amd64-linux -Dprefix=/opt/perl -Dprivlib=/opt/perl/lib/perl5 -Darchlib=/opt/perl/lib/perl5 -Dvendorprefix=/opt/perl -Dvendorlib=/opt/perl/lib/perl5 -Dvendorarch=/opt/perl/lib/perl5 -Dsiteprefix=/opt/perl -Dsitelib=/opt/perl/lib/perl5 -Dsitearch=/opt/perl/lib/perl5 -Dsitebin=/opt/perl/bin -Dman1dir=/opt/perl/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/opt/perl/man/man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/opt/perl/man/man1 -Dsiteman3dir=/opt/perl/man/man3 -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3 -Dpager=/usr/bin/less -Uafs -Uusesfio -Uusenm -Uuseshrplib -Ud_dosuid -Dusethreads=undef -Duse5005threads=undef -Duseithreads=undef -Dusemultiplicity=undef -Demail=perl-binary@plan9.de -Dcf_email=perl-binary@plan9.de -Dcf_by=Ma
 rc Lehmann -Dlocincpth=/opt/perl/include /opt/include -Dmyhostname=localhost -Dmultiarch=undef -Dbin=/opt/perl/bin -Dxxxusedevel -DxxxDEBUGGING -Dxxxuse_debugging_perl -Dxxxuse_debugmalloc -des'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=undef, usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags ='-ggdb -gdwarf-2 -g3 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/opt/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O6 -funroll-loops -fno-strict-aliasing',
    cppflags='-DPERL_ARENA_SIZE=65536 -D_GNU_SOURCE -I/opt/include -ggdb -gdwarf-2 -g3 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/opt/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.3.2', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags ='-L/opt/perl/lib -L/opt/lib -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /lib64 /usr/lib64
    libs=-ldl -lm -lcrypt
    perllibs=-ldl -lm -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.10.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.10.2'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O6 -funroll-loops -fno-strict-aliasing -L/opt/perl/lib -L/opt/lib -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl 5.10.1:
    /root/src/sex
    /opt/perl/lib/perl5
    /opt/perl/lib/perl5
    /opt/perl/lib/perl5
    /opt/perl/lib/perl5
    .

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Environment for perl 5.10.1:
    HOME=/root
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/root/s2:/root/s:/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/root/pserv:.
    PERL5LIB=/root/src/sex
    PERL5_CPANPLUS_CONFIG=/root/.cpanplus/config
    PERLDB_OPTS=ornaments=0
    PERL_ANYEVENT_DBI_TESTS=1
    PERL_ANYEVENT_EDNS0=1
    PERL_ANYEVENT_NET_TESTS=1
    PERL_ANYEVENT_PROTOCOLS=ipv4,ipv6
    PERL_ANYEVENT_STRICT=1
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    PERL_UNICODE=E
    SHELL=/bin/bash

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