From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-06-08T00:15:04+09:00
Subject: Re: 1-second events

On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 11:09:00PM +0900, Michael Campbell wrote:
> > SIGALRM is used by the interpreter internally, so you can't use
> > it.
> 
> This seems a rather heavy handed tact to take by the language; do
> other scripting languages have this restriction?

I think it uses SIGVTALRM for threading; this is a common trick to
implement user-level threads.  Looking at the source from CVS, though, I
don't see anywhere that SIGALRM is reserved.

Paul