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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: How to do alarm()?
Message-ID: <10197@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 31 Oct 90 21:56:59 GMT
References: <1990Oct31.041758.15623@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> <CLIPPER.90Oct31104736@chan.csd.uwo.ca>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In article <CLIPPER.90Oct31104736@chan.csd.uwo.ca> clipper@chan.csd.uwo.ca (Khun Yee Fung) writes:
: I also found the error I committed when I used the various codes
: written by others and myself, all using syscall().  I used a return
: statement in the interrupt subroutine. It produced a Segmentation
: fault error. If I used a return statement in the code written by
: <worley@compass.uucp>, the same error would be produced (on my machine
: anyway).  I wonder why. Anybody has any idea? Just curious.

Same reason return didn't work in a sort subroutine.  It'll be fixed in 38.

Larry