SPUG: Signals: Best Practices?

[Tim Maher]

Clarifying the subject, and focusing more, in the hope of sparking
some discussion.
-Tim

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:27:44AM -0700, Tim Maher wrote:
> SPUGsters,
> 
> Using Sys::SigAction for setting all signal handlers and timeouts
> would seem to have the potential for making these tools more reliable
> and portable, but ..  I wonder how intelligent this module
> really is. ...
> 
> Can somebody offer some guidelines, or "Best Practices", or actual
> documentation, on how to use Perl signals reliably and portably with
> the 5.8.* versions of Perl?
> 
> TIA,
> -Tim
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