Re^2: Signals in Strawberry Perl: Name or number?

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Unfortunately, that gives me an error:

> perl -e "use POSIX 'SIGALRM'; die SIGALRM;'
Your vendor has not defined POSIX macro SIGALRM, used at -e line 1
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On another note, though, I'm curious about that. Does die SIGALRM actually raise a SIGALRM to the calling process, similar to POSIX::raise? If so, is it a POSIX thing, or can I use die SIGSTOP and so forth without useing POSIX?

print pack("A25",pack("V*",map{1919242272+$_}(34481450,-49737472,6228,0,-285028276,6979,-1380265972)))

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Re^3: Signals in Strawberry Perl: Name or number? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 13, 2009 at 00:49 UTC
Does die SIGALRM actually raise a SIGALRM to the calling process No. `die` is a terse way of printing. It never sends a signal. I'm guessing `SIGALRM` is a constant whose value is the signal number associated with `SIGALRM`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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