On Thu, 21 Dec 1995, Stephen Degler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I hate the behavior of signal(3) under Solaris (SVR4). When I set a
> signal handler via %SIG, it gets reset to SIG_DFLT upon entry into the
> signal handler. Maybe I'm just not a system V kind of guy, but I
> don't want this behavior (and posix on Solaris offers better
> behavior). Does the Net agree?
>
> My suggestion is to use sigaction, which is posix, or sigset which
> also works correctly (IMHO) under Solaris.
I'll second Stephen's comment and suggest that perl's %SIG handling
should always be reliable, regardless of whether sigaction, signal, or
hacks have to be used to get it.
Just another entry for the TODO file...
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Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)