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On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > Depends if we want to kill it dead, or simply push it out onto CPAN much > like Switch or Devel::DProf. > > Pushing it onto CPAN seems "nicer", but a bit harder. > > Currently POSIX.pm has > > tie %POSIX::SIGRT, 'POSIX::SigRt'; > > I think we'd need to break out the code implementing this, ie that in > package POSIX::SigRT, out into its own .pm file. > > For a transition period, to keep things working, we'd then need to have > POSIX.pm tie %POSIX::SIGRT to a bunch of proxy code that loads POSIX::SigRT > but warns you that you should have done this yourself. > > Then, after a release or two we drop the proxying code. > > Likely, in parallel, one would have POSIX::SigRT be in dist/ dual-life > on CPAN, and going through the "evicting module from core" process. Sounds like a sane plan > B<NOTE:> whether POSIX realtime signals really work in your system, or > whether Perl has been compiled so that it works with them, is outside > of this discussion. > > which likely *also* means that we can't test it. There are some tests for it already in POSIX's test suite. If SIGRTMIN and SIGRTMAX are present and sensible you can assume the OS has real time signals. LeonThread Previous | Thread Next