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ikegami
<p>Not true.
<c>
$ perl 815492.pl
Enter your password: You timed out.
</c>
<p>Signals for which there is a handler will interrupt I/O operations (at the OS level) even under safe signals. <c>readline</c> returns (with errno = EINTR) as soon as the signal is received, allowing the signal handler to be called within milliseconds even under safe signals.
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