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| author | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-10-30 21:08:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@cpan.org> | 1998-10-30 21:08:11 +0000 |
| commit | f648820cb158526d3c3e16f712206316f2112b7e (patch) | |
| tree | fdc8b957c76a44513968ca0ba79e4a7d242b934b /pod/perlvar.pod | |
| parent | 7bdaec8ae6f8e5acca5224ad0e011cbd98e7875e (diff) | |
| download | perl-f648820cb158526d3c3e16f712206316f2112b7e.tar.gz | |
mention the C<$SIG{CHLD} = 'IGNORE'> special case
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@2152
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diff --git a/pod/perlvar.pod b/pod/perlvar.pod index 739dd55cd2..af5f62f74b 100644 --- a/pod/perlvar.pod +++ b/pod/perlvar.pod @@ -835,6 +835,10 @@ signals. Example: $SIG{'INT'} = 'DEFAULT'; # restore default action $SIG{'QUIT'} = 'IGNORE'; # ignore SIGQUIT +Using a value of C<'IGNORE'> usually has the effect of ignoring the +signal, except for the C<CHLD> signal. See L<perlipc> for more about +this special case. + The %SIG array contains values for only the signals actually set within the Perl script. Here are some other examples: |