RE: Keyboard signals
"Jan Dubois" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.perl.active-perl |
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| Organization | ActiveState Software Inc |
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Jan Dubois wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Barry Brevik wrote:
> >
> > Environment is Active Perl 5.8.8 on Windows.
> >
> > Does anyone know if there is a keystroke combo that will result in a
> > SIG{QUIT} in the currently running Perl app?
> >
> > I know that SIG{INT} and SIG{BREAK} happen on CTRL-C and CTRL-Break.
>
> These are the only 2 signals supported by the Win32 API, so there is
> no keystroke combo that generate SIGQUIT.
>
> See also:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms686016%28VS.85%29.aspx
Oh, and anyways, SIGQUIT has been remapped on Windows to be the same as
SIGBREAK, so even if there was a keystroke that generated it, you still
wouldn't be able to distinguish it from SIGBREAK. $SIG{BREAK} and
$SIG{QUIT} are aliases for the same signal handler on Windows.
Cheers,
-Jan
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