in reply to Re^5: Different perl behavior between V5.10 and V5.14
in thread Different perl behavior between V5.10 and V5.14

Yep, looks like a good workaround. Also I belive you can use 
$!{EINTR}

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instead of 
$! eq 'Interrupted system call'

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(as per '%!' in perlvar)

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