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in thread Signals in Strawberry Perl: Name or number?

Does die SIGALRM actually raise a SIGALRM to the calling process

No. die is a terse way of printing. It never sends a signal.

I'm guessing SIGALRM is a constant whose value is the signal number associated with SIGALRM.