From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-09-21T01:46:40+09:00
Subject: Re: reliable signals [slightly OT]

Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> any users of other ruby platforms besides linux and solaris have a
> feeling on how reliable the signal handling it in ruby?  what i mean
> by reliable is if people know whether a ruby application that might
> be handling hundreds of signals per second misses any or not.  in
> know that some operating system signals are said not to be reliable -
> but i don't know if this is true or not.

Not directly an answer, but I believed (until now probably) that these 
signals are meant for rare events (you usually don't have hundrets of child 
processes terminating at the same second or people pressing CTRL-C 100 times 
per second).  IOW, they were not designed to be ultimately performant.  IMHO 
there are other means that do the job in a better way (pipes, semaphores 
etc.).

Just my 0.01 EUR...

Kind regards

    robert