To forbid signal handlers altogether would bars you from
many interesting programs, including virtually everything in this manpage,
-since you could no longer even write SIGCHLD handlers. Their dodginess
-is expected to be addresses in the 5.005 release.
+since you could no longer even write SIGCHLD handlers.
=head1 Using open() for IPC
You can test for these with Perl's B<-S> file test:
unless ( -S '/dev/log' ) {
- die "something's wicked with the print system";
+ die "something's wicked with the log system";
}
Here's a sample Unix-domain client: