This is one for the monks of dubious purity who don't baulk at the thought of overriding die.

I have a package (with parts borrowed and munged from some existing CPAN modules whose names escape me) that replaces die with a handler to make a useful web error page on die - with stack traces etc.

I just had it throw up a very unusual case. The stack trace shows the following:

my_sybase_error_handler() : die "foo";
Sybase::DBlib nsql() Line: 429 : $db->dbsqlexec;
my_app_code() : eval {$dbh->nsql;};

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Sybase::DBLib allows you to register an error handler that will be called if dbsqlexec detects an error, which is what gets called in the final instance. Clearly the die should be caught by the eval, but instead my web error page gets displayed.

I'm replacing die by assigning the glob of my web error handler to *CORE::GLOBAL::die. perlvar suggests doing this so I don't have to deal with checking $^S which indicates to me that my handler won't get called when something die's within an eval.

That seems to be wrong in this case. Unfortunately this particular application is running that most unfortunate of perl versions 5.6.0 which may have some bearing on the matter.

Next I'm going to run some tests to see if $^S can be set when my die replacement is called, but since I don't even know if it *is* called in this instance (perhaps it is the stack trace that is lying) then my results may not be conclusive.

In reply to Overriding CORE::GLOBAL::die and $^S by aufflick

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