That makes sense to me. Trying to think of a solution, the first thing I came up with that would probably work is to write a signal reflector. 

sub spawn {
    my $pid;
    if(  $^O =~ /Win32/  ) {
        $pid= system( 1, @_ );
    } else {
        # do something more complex with fork() and exec()
        # since Perl doesn't provide a portable way to spawn
    }
    return $pid;
}

my $mirror= spawn( $^X, 'mirror.pl', $$ );
my @sigs;
$SIG{$_}= \&logSig
    for  keys(%SIG);
$SIG{USR1}= \&restoreHandlers;

sub logSig {
    my $sig = shift @_;
    push @sigs, $sig;
    syslog( 'info', "Got signal '$sig'" );
    $SIG{$sig}= 'DEFAULT';
    kill $sig, $mirror;
}

sub restoreHandlers
{
    my $sig= shift @_;
    if(  ! @sigs  ) {
        syslog( 'info', "Got signal '$sig'" );
    } else {
        $SIG{$_} = \&logsig
            for  @sigs;
        @sigs= ();
    }
}

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Then mirror.pl would be: 

my $caller= shift @ARGV;
$SIG{$_} = \&reflectSig
    for  keys(%SIG);

sub reflectSig {
    my $sig= shift @_;
    kill $sig, $caller;
    kill 'USR1', $caller;
}

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A bit complex, unfortunately. Of course, if you get sent the same signal twice, you might not log two lines; that is just how signals work.

In the unlikely event that signals have priorities and when a process has received both a USR1 and some other signal it could decide to process the USR1 before the other (even though the other came in first), that could cause problems.

- tye        

In reply to Re^2: Signal Question (mirror) by tye
in thread Signal Question by pileofrogs

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