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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Signal handling...
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Date: 22 Mar 90 14:16:18 GMT
References: <1990Mar21.173423.7281@eci386.uucp>
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In article <1990Mar21.173423.7281@eci386.uucp> clewis@eci386 (Chris Lewis) writes:
>I want to be able to set signals in Perl for SIGINT/SIGQUIT/SIGTERM etc.
>analogously to the traditional C:
>
>	if (signal(SIGINT, SIG_IGN) == SIG_DFL)
>	    signal(SIGINT, &myhandler);

Isn't this for people who don't have shells with job control and
whose background jobs still get keyboard interrupts?

--tom
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