in reply to Re: win32, ctrl-c, sleep, and signals
in thread win32, ctrl-c, sleep, and signals

Are you sure? It works fine for me on Unix with perl 5.8.3. It seems to me that sleep would qualify as a "potentially blocking operation" mentioned in perl58delta...

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Re^3: win32, ctrl-c, sleep, and signals
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on May 30, 2006 at 17:12 UTC
    Are you sure?

    Yes. See Re^3: win32, ctrl-c, sleep, and signals.


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