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From:
Leon Timmermans
Date:
December 31, 2011 09:33
Subject:
What to do with POSIX::SigRt?
Message ID:
CAHhgV8g7fgG7VGCsuGWu4UnUZjfeHYUn7wUE3aenQX4VszPL_A@mail.gmail.com
POSIX has the %SIGRT hash for a couple of years now (3609ea0d), but
I'm not sure it should. I'm not sure what the purpose of it is
exactly, it's pretty much %SIG except that it uses unsafe signals.
Also, it uses its own *undocumented* key naming scheme (which makes me
suspect it's not being used at all), written in perl4 style and rather
buggy.

Quite frankly I don't see how anyone could make a working program with
this. I feel it'd be best to deprecate it.

Leon

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