Re^2: Need a reliable way to send SIGINT to a perl process on 5.8.8/windows XPpro

So I tried setting $ENV{PERL_SIGNALS} = "unsafe"; and saw no change. It doesn't seem to be a timing issue as far as I can tell, it appears that the signal never makes it to the process in the first place.

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Re^3: Need a reliable way to send SIGINT to a perl process on 5.8.8/windows XPpro by chromatic (Archbishop) on Mar 09, 2007 at 01:02 UTC
I believe you have to set it before you start Perl, but I'm not positive. However, if Perl isn't performing a single long-running operation, but the signal never arrives, this isn't the solution. I don't know anything about signal handling on Windows.	[reply]
Re^4: Need a reliable way to send SIGINT to a perl process on 5.8.8/windows XPpro by fwashbur (Sexton) on Mar 09, 2007 at 01:36 UTC
Definitely not doing a long running operation, a short sleep in a while, so the signal should be able to get through the opcodes in the while. Windows signal handling is just bad I guess.	[reply]