I was working on a quick hack of a script which included a nasty loop that will run for at least an hour. Sometimes I'm an impatient programmer, and don't like having my CPU block for an extended period of time, so I wanted to stop the loop, go in and edit the hack to restart the loop where it left off, and then re-start it later.... so I threw in this code: 
BEGIN{ $SIG{INT}=sub{ print $counter, $/ } }

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But I'm running this hack on a Win32 box, so ctrl-c failed to trigger my sigtrap. I eventually gave up trying to do it smart and instead just have the thing printing $counter out to STDOUT. It works, but I kind of wish I could have done it right. Does anyone know how to do a good trap like that on a Win32 machine?

In reply to Win32 Interrupts by Adam

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