Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!convex!news From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Default actions for %SIG Message-ID: <1991Mar06.213823.17347@convex.com> Date: 6 Mar 91 21:38:23 GMT References: <11683@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> <124822@uunet.UU.NET> Sender: news@convex.com (news access account) Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Distribution: comp Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com From the keyboard of rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim): :Yes, but we need more signal support. I would like to block :signals, set masks, etc. Either POSIX or 4.3 interface would be fine. :Actually, it should probably be POSIX. At least say "someday". Probably so. On systems with the facilities you describe, won't syscall get you there? What does dot-1 say on syscall? I know -- it's just a hack. --tom -- I get so tired of utilities with arbitrary, undocumented, compiled-in limits. Don't you? Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist