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Subject: Replacement to ticks for signals
From: arnaud.lb@gmail.com ("Arnaud Le Blanc")

Hi,

I made a pcntl_signal_dispatch() function [1] to allow scripts that use 
signals to work without ticks.

This function just calls the pcntl's tick handler on-demand so that all signal 
handler functions are called if there are pending signals.

It does not allow the signal handlers to be called at any time like with 
ticks, but allows things like this:

while (do_something()) {
 /* main loop */
 pcntl_signal_dispatch();
}

or 

while (pcntl_signal_dispatch() && do_something()) {
 /* main loop */
}

Can I commit this ?

[1] http://arnaud.lb.s3.amazonaws.com/pcntl_signal_dispatch.patch

Regards,

Arnaud