From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2007-12-26T12:12:35+09:00
Subject: Re: challenged with signal


On Dec 25, 2007, at 6:34 PM, Junkone wrote:
> thanks for letting me know. i guess i cannot trust the chm file too
> much.

The documentation for Kernel#trap doesn't mention that not
all signals are supported on all systems, but the documentation
for the Signal class is a bit better:

> The list of available signal names and their interpretation is
> system dependent. Signal delivery semantics may also vary between
> systems; in particular signal delivery may not always be reliable.

It still doesn't give you a recipe for determining what signals
are available in your environment but at least it mentions that
this is system dependent.

Gary Wright