From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-02-15T08:59:15+09:00
Subject: Re: SIGALRM available?

Hi,

In message "Re: SIGALRM available?"
    on Tue, 15 Feb 2005 05:00:03 +0900, Guillaume Marcais <guslist@free.fr> writes:

|Is SIGALRM (on Linux) available for a Ruby app to redefine, or is it
|used internally by Ruby (or some very often used libraries)?

You can use SIGALRM.  SIGVTALRM is reserved for threads.

							matz.