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From: jhh@sprite.Berkeley.EDU (John H. Hartman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: perl ignores signals
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Date: 23 Nov 90 23:53:50 GMT
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Why does Perl ignore SIGINT while doing a wait4pid()?
My experience with Perl is that the INT signal is ignored almost
all of the time.  Once a Perl script starts spewing unwanted stuff
I'd like to be able to send it a ctrl-C (SIGINT) and have it stop.

John

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John H. Hartman
Graduate Student, UCB Sprite project
jhh@sprite.berkeley.edu