From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-02-28T09:33:10+09:00
Subject: Re: DRb and signals

Eric Hodel wrote:
> On Feb 27, 2006, at 2:45 PM, mental@rydia.net wrote:
> 
>> Using DRb appears to disable signal handlers in Ruby, at least in
>> 1.8.4.  Is there any way to work around this?
>>
>> Compare:
>>
>>  trap( "SIGINT" ) { puts "foo" ; exit 0 }
>>  loop do sleep 1 end
>>
>> with:
>>
>>  require 'drb'
>>  DRb.start_service
>>  trap( "SIGINT" ) { puts "foo" ; exit 0 }
>>  loop do sleep 1 end
>>
>> In the second case, sending the process a SIGINT appears to have no
>> effect at all...
> 
> Not seeing it:
> 
> $ ruby -v -
> ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [powerpc-darwin8.4.0]

Seems ok also with ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux].

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