I've been doing this for a while but I'm just starting on daemon code and I thought signal handlers sounded like a good idea (it lets me close sockets and database handles, etc.) So I tried it, and got stuck right here... I've read everything I can find on signal handlers, and this looks right to me: 
sub GotSignal($) { 
  my $sig = shift; 
  print "Got a $sig signal, exiting\n"; 
  exit(0); 
 }
      # Install signal handlers
      local $SIG{HUP} = 'IGNORE';
      local $SIG{QUIT} = \&GotSignal('quit');

while (1) { # do stuff }

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..But it doesn't work. As soon as the code hits the line where I assign a handler to $SIG{QUIT}, it runs that subroutine and exits. But if I do this: 

      # Install signal handlers
      local $SIG{HUP} = 'IGNORE';
      local $SIG{QUIT} = sub { my $sig = shift; print "Got a $sig sign
+al, exiting\n"; exit(0); };

while (1) { # do stuff }

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The second example works as expected. This is on Linux (RH 6.2) runing perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3). Anyone have any ideas? All help appreciated.
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In reply to Strange SIGNAL HANDLER behavior... by Clownburner

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