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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Signal handling in Perl
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Date: 15 Apr 91 22:04:25 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.141316.46228@vaxb.acs.unt.edu> <1991Apr15.211051.3326@convex.com>
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In article <1991Apr15.211051.3326@convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>From the keyboard of billy@vaxb.acs.unt.edu:
>:
>:  $sig{'INT'}='IGNORE';
>:
>You should be using %SIG not %sig for this.  Case counts.
>
>--tom

How about `*sig = *SIG'? [GROAN]

Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work.

The right variable gets set, but the signal handler never does.

It's not the pointer that's special, it's the name.

Somehow I can't bring myself to call this wrong :-)
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