Short version of a long story: I have a program that uses a subroutine in a utilities.pm module. The subroutine forks and the child calls a java program that extracts database info and ends; the java bit takes several minutes to run. I have signal handlers set up in the main program and I want to know if they are still active for the child process? Also, it seems the global variables set by the signal handlers are not inherited by the child (and maybe not even by the module before the fork), is there a way to export them from the main program to the module without explicitly passing them? (please don't tell me I'd have to do that for each subroutine in the module---arghh!) Thanks for any insight!

In reply to signal handlers & global vars in module subs? by apprentice

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