Signal::Mask(3pm)

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💖 Signal::Mask ✨

okay bestie, welcome to Signal::Mask(3pm), a little Perl module from the User Contributed Perl Documentation section and honestly? it's giving peace and quiet for your signals 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

Signal::Mask — signal masks made easy 💅

like, made easy easy. no cap.

🦋 VERSION 🦋

this is version 0.009 ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

here's the whole vibe, bestie:

use Signal::Mask;

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

see how the signal just... waits politely outside the block? iconic behaviour 👑

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so Signal::Mask is basically an abstraction around your process or thread signal mask 🧚

what does it do? it lets you fetch and/or change the signal mask of the calling process or thread. and what even is a signal mask, you ask? it's the set of signals whose delivery is currently blocked for the caller. that's it. that's the whole concept. the signals get told "not right now, we're busy" 💀

and the way you access it? it's literally just chillin' there as the global hash %Signal::Mask 🍓

ngl the local trick in the synopsis is the whole main character move here — you slam a value into $Signal::Mask{INT}, do your lil thing, and the moment the block ends the mask goes right back to how it was. signal delivery resumes. periodt 💖

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> — ty for your service king 🙏

This software is copyright (c) 2010 by Leon Timmermans. ⭐

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. slay, free software fr fr 🎀

and that's the whole page bestie!! this was Signal::Mask(3pm), written for perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-03-13 🦋 go block some signals responsibly, love u, bye 💖✨👑

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