From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 24 21:53:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from boreas.isi.edu (boreas.isi.edu [128.9.160.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F32314E9D for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:53:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from larse@ISI.EDU) Received: from [128.9.176.131] (ras31.isi.edu [128.9.176.131]) by boreas.isi.edu (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id VAA27171; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:53:26 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.01 (1630) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:53:27 -0800 Subject: Re: [ID 20000124.004] "perl in malloc(): warning: recursive call" on From: Lars Eggert To: Ilya Zakharevich , Lars Eggert Cc: , Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200001250348.WAA21600@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Lars ____________________________________________________________________________ Lars Eggert Information Sciences Institute http://www.isi.edu/~larse/ University of Southern California To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message