From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2007-12-26T08:20:10+09:00
Subject: Re: challenged with signal

On 25 dic, 18:23, Junkone <junko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
> I am playing around with the jabber bot fron the linkhttp://nearlyfree.org/fun-jabber-bots.
>
> I get a error at the following code next to trap. not sure why it is
> happening. i thought you could send any string to trap a signal. can
> someone help.
>
> E:\Tools\CODE>ruby bot1.rb
> bot1.rb:23:in `trap': unsupported signal SIGUSR1 (ArgumentError)
>         from bot1.rb:23
>


The error message wasn't too descriptive?

unsupported signal SIGUSR1, there you go.
USR1, USR2 and TERM are unsupported signal on Windows.

Only INT (INTERRUPT) is working.

HTH,

Luis