Signal::Pending(3) Signal pending status made easy

VERSION

version 0.008

SYNOPSIS


use Signal::Mask;
use Signal::Pending;

{
local $Signal::Mask{INT} = 1;
do {
something();
} while (not $Signal::Pending{INT})
}
#signal delivery gets postponed until now

DESCRIPTION

Signal::Pending is an abstraction around your process'/thread's pending signals. It can be used in combination with signal masks to handle signals in a controlled manner. The set of pending signals is available as the global hash %Signal::Pending.

AUTHOR

Leon Timmermans <[email protected]>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Leon Timmermans.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.