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Subject: Re: Signals in Extensions
From: pollita@php.net ("Sara Golemon")

> I have an extension that interfaces with a
> library that sets a signal handler for some
> common signals. In particular the library
> forks processes and does socket writes
> so it needs to be able to handle SIGCHLD
> and SIGPIPE. It also registers some other
> signals for debugging purposes. Can I
> anticipate any kinds of problems from this?
> Does the Zend engine use any signals in particular?
>
It's not PHP/Zend you should be afraid of... the interpreter goes a long way
towards avoiding the use of signals because it's designed to run on
<whatever> webserver and that webserver may or may not try to use signals in
one way or another.  If you're using the CGI SAPI you might be safe, other
than that.... Best of luck to ya.