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Re: What to do with POSIX::SigRt?

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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
January 11, 2012 01:13
Subject:
Re: What to do with POSIX::SigRt?
Message ID:
20120111091322.GZ9069@plum.flirble.org
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 09:44:47PM +0100, Leon Timmermans wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:

> >    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.

Aha wonderful. They import %SIGRT, hence why my search didn't spot them
(I was assuming it was referenced as %POSIX::SIGRT)

Nicholas Clark

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