Have a look at kill() in the docs which will point you to the perlman:perlipc manpage where you can read this:

Some signals can be neither trapped nor ignored, such as the KILL and STOP (but not the TSTP) signals.

Many details about Perl IPC are on this manpage.

cheers

tachyon

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