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fair enough. Its just a standard debian install. I will do further research. Thanks so much for all the help.

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Re^7: Invalid value for shared scalar
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 31, 2006 at 20:49 UTC

    One further thought. Id the problem occuring in the code I posted, or in a modification or adaption of it?

    To my knowledge, signal handlers will only work in the main thread, not in a subthread. If you have moved the signal handler into a subthread, that might explain the difference?


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      Produces the same thing with your code exactly, so must just be a difference in compile options or something like that. Thanks again.