Re^2: win32, ctrl-c, sleep, and signals


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Re^2: win32, ctrl-c, sleep, and signals

by SirBones (Friar)

on May 30, 2006 at 16:38 UTC ( [id://552545]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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This is caused by the 'safe signals' that were introduced by 5.8.0.

Fair enough, but that doesn't seem to explain why I get different behavior on Linux (immediate exit), where I'm running Perl 5.8.0.

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Ken

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Re^3: win32, ctrl-c, sleep, and signals
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 30, 2006 at 17:11 UTC

You have to remember that Win32 does not have signals as a native concept. Perl's support for them is simulated and limited, and is actually implemented via the process message queue. This is the code that implements the signal emulations from win32.c: