On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 02:44:05PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Lars Eggert wrote:
>
> > Ilya,
> >
> > thanks for the quick response.
> >
> > > Signals and Perl do not mix. Please do not use signals if a segfault
> > > is not a desirable form of output.
> >
> > Never? After reading perlipc I was under the impression that using signals
> > was okay if you keep your handlers simple. I may have to use to another form
> > of IPC if signals cannot be made safe.
>
> Our malloc can't be used in a signal handler.
One can write a signal handler in such a way that no mallocs are going
to be called (see my example). But this would not help: segfaults
will happen anyway.
Ilya
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