Re: signals and events

[email protected] (Leopold Toetsch) Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:21:49 +0200
Newsgroups perl.perl6.internals,perl.ponie.dev
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Nicholas Clark wrote:
> What is the state of signals and events support? As far as I can tell from
> watching which perl 5 regression tests fail or hang under parrot, currently
> parrot can't behave as a passive embedding target - it assumes that it needs
> to take ownership of all signals.

Parrot currently captures SIGHUP for testing (I don't remember if other 
signals are blocked) And yes, there is no interface whatsoever to pass a 
signal on, or some such.

> Is this likely to change soon? 

We need an API.
.
> Nicholas Clark

leo