From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-06-09T14:41:13+09:00
Subject: Re: 1-second events

Hi,

At Sat, 8 Jun 2002 00:15:04 +0900,
Paul Brannan 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.

Sorry, mistaken.  You're right.

-- 
Nobu Nakada