You can't catch and prevent a death using $SIG{__DIE__}. You have to use eval, as broquaint said. Once you've got the code that dies wrapped in an eval, all you need to do to "catch the DIE signal" is run the eval block, and then test to see if $@ is set, afterwards (as broquaint's code does with the warn). If it's set, then something in the eval block died. There's no way to prevent the code in the eval block from halting from the death. You just have to recover outside the block and then restart it, as needed. If you've ever used a language with exceptions (eg, Java), it's more like a try / catch pair, then catching and ignoring signals.

Hope that makes it a little more clear.

bbfu
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In reply to Re: How do I avoid a die generated by a module? by bbfu
in thread How do I avoid a die generated by a module? by Anonymous Monk

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