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Signals have since been fixed to be safe.
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Re^3: Let's face it, Perl *is* a scripting language
by tilly (Archbishop) on Aug 09, 2006 at 02:47 UTC
    More precisely we now have a choice. Working unsafe signals, or not working safe signals.

    What I mean by this is that we can either choose to allow signals to interrupt long atomic calls (eg an attempt to connect to a database with DBI) but suffer potential core dumps, or else we can choose safety but not be able to use alarms to get timeouts to work.

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