Re: [ID 19991229.003] perl 5.005_03 core dumps -- singal

[Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org>]

At 04:22 PM 1/12/00 -0500, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 04:19:26PM -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > Which model, VMS' asyc system? Sure, some of them. There are limits to
> > what's acceptable, but the limits are pretty broad. Generally you're not
> > using the C RTL that much in an AST handler--most of the interesting 
> work's
> > done with system services. (But, then, VMS has a very rich set of system
> > services, so it's not a problem)
>
>Which is basically the same as with OS/2: you cannot use any
>"interesting" CRT call, and need to go into the "non-portable" mode.

Yeah, but there really aren't any "interesting" CRTL calls. (Well, except 
in the nastiest sense of the word interesting, and those calls are best 
left alone anyway)

Not that this really matters for perl, since the signal handlers won't be 
executing at interrupt time anyway...


					Dan

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