in reply to POSIX signal handling in Perl 5.6.x

My experience with signals says me: "Never use it for important things!". I Once started playing with Signals and Unix Sockets, and I found that it simply didn't work reliably. Signals were lost, conections staled and so on... Ok, this was Linux 2.2 (maybe earlier... it was 1999~2000)... But I still don't trust them for anything else then simple notifications that wouldn't cause the III World War if missed.

daniel
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Re^2: POSIX signal handling in Perl 5.6.x
by qzrrbz (Novice) on Sep 16, 2005 at 18:49 UTC
    The fact that I'm using UDP on the socket in the select() should signal (heh) my reasonable lack of concern about data droppage.

    However, the "every other signal" behavior is too regular to be chance. That's what I'm more than a little curious to understand!
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