From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-02-22T17:08:42+09:00
Subject: Re: IPSocket.getaddress and signals

Hi,

In message "IPSocket.getaddress and signals"
    on 02/02/22, Joseph McDonald <joe@vpop.net> writes:

|  Does anyone know why signals are not handled while in
|  IPSocket.getaddress ?  I can get signals handled if I install the
|  signal handler via a C extension, but when I define them like:

Because Ruby signal handler is called from interpreter loop, not
within the C function.  If you want to interrupt name lookup, use
resolve-replace.rb

							matz.