There is a common misperception that signals don't work on Windows Perl. Not true. sleep() is implemented in terms of ALRM and that can and does cause difficulties, but the basic signals do work on Windows XP.

Funny. Windows doesn't even have an API for signals, so how could they "work"?

Perl emulates signals on Windows, and that emulation is not perfect. It "works" for some common cases, but even then, the emulation behaves different from a Unix system. See also perlport, perlwin32.

Alexander

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In reply to Re^2: When to use sigtrap, when to assign to %SIG? by afoken
in thread When to use sigtrap, when to assign to %SIG? by Anonymous Monk

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