Bummer. It appears to be a portability issue here (as far as I can tell). I'm using examples straight out of the Cookbook and they don't work. I even tried setting $SIG{INT} = 'IGNORE';, but to no avail.

However, I searched the perlbug database and couldn't find a problem like this. In fact, I verifed that others are successfully using %SIG, so I assume that I must be misunderstand something. So let me see if I understand this. The following should generate an infinite loop which should do nothing but fill the screen with numbers and cannot be broken out of with CTRL-C:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

$SIG{INT} = 'IGNORE';
my $count=0;
while (){
    print $count++;
}
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Unfortunately, when I hit CTRL-C, the program stops on a dime.

Cheers,
Ovid

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