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in thread Signal Handling throws Core Dump

When I give $SIG{INT} an anonymous subroutine, I can at least get it it to increment $sig and exit cleanly.

But when I try to run an object method designed to remove a stored PID from a DB, it cores. 

# doesn't work
$SIG{INT}  = sub {
     $sig++;
     $control->removeMonitorPID($monitor->{PID});
};

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This @ISA my( $cool ) %SIG

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Re^3: Signal Handling throws Core Dump
by jettero (Monsignor) on Apr 25, 2007 at 16:57 UTC
    Well, that shouldn't be too surprising. You're not really supposed to do stuff like that from a signal handler. That's not even a perl specific issue.

    -Paul

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Re^3: Signal Handling throws Core Dump
by former33t (Scribe) on Apr 26, 2007 at 03:05 UTC
    I first want to clarify that there are WAY better ways to do this, but if you want to increment a global variable to detect a signal being caught this will do the trick. As Paul noted earlier you shouldn't be trying to do anything complicated in the signal handler itself. 
    our $sig;
$sig = 1;

$SIG{INT}  = sub {
     $sig++;
};

my $oldsig;
while (1) {
  if ($sig != $oldsig) {
   $control->removeMonitorPID($monitor->{PID});  #Execute the code ori
+ginally in the signal handler.
   $oldsig = $sig;
  }
  .... Run main loop, but make sure to poll the status of the global v
+ariable ....
}

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      Can you mention some of the WAY better ways or point at some references for them?
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      I actually did take the "complicated" code out of the sig handler and put it into a couple of conditional blocks as you demonstrated. I did still get the core dumps. However, I can't remember if I left the handler as simple as incrementing the global $sig. I'll give that a go...

      dsb
      This @ISA my( $cool ) %SIG
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