in reply to Re^5: $SIG{ALRM} and windows vista?
in thread $SIG{ALRM} and windows vista?

A little bit of bean counting:

Windows has no signals, and it does not emulate them. It's perl that implements an incomplete emulation of Unix signals, without support from Windows.

From perlport:

Don't count on signals or %SIG for anything.

Alexander

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Re^7: $SIG{ALRM} and windows vista?
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 04, 2010 at 09:12 UTC
    It's perl that implements an incomplete emulation of Unix signals

    If we're being pedantic, it is Perl on Windows that does the emulation.

    Which is of course what I meant, though I agree, not exactly what I said.

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