NAME

Signal::Mask - Signal masks made easy

VERSION

Version 0.004

SYNOPSIS

Signal::Mask is an abstraction around your process or thread signal mask. It is used to fetch and/or change the signal mask of the calling process or thread. The signal mask is the set of signals whose delivery is currently blocked for the caller.

use Signal::Mask 'SIG_MASK';

{
    local $SIG_MASK{INT} = 1;
    do_something();
}
#signal delivery gets postponed until now

EXPORT

When importation is given an argument, this module exports a HASH by that name. It can also be accessed as %Signal::Mask::SIG_MASK. Any true value for a hash entry will correspond with that signal being masked.

AUTHOR

Leon Timmermans, <leont at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-signal-mask at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Signal-Mask. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Signal::Mask

You can also look for information at:

• RT: CPAN's request tracker

  http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Signal-Mask

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  http://annocpan.org/dist/Signal-Mask

• CPAN Ratings

  http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Signal-Mask

• Search CPAN

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/Signal-Mask/

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2010 Leon Timmermans.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either: the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; or the Artistic License.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/ for more information.