From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2002-07-11T07:18:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Waits are not interrupted by signals

On Wednesday 10 July 2002 02:53 pm, Bob Alexander wrote:

> The signal handler is invoked, but the wait is not interrupted. If
> Enter is typed in the first shell, the program prints the input and
> terminates (since its IO request is satisfied).

seems to work right with Ruby 1.6.7 under Linux:

$ cat > xx.rb

p Process.pid
begin
    p $stdin.read(1)
rescue => e
    p e
end
$ ruby xx.rb
3195
xx.rb:4:in `read': SIGUSR1 (SignalException)
        from xx.rb:4

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