I've got a complex PERL application running and it has a CLI. Part of this CLI is that you can hit CTRL-C to stop the current process and return to the command-line. Now, I'm trapping SIGINT by doing a 
my $abort = 0;
my $old_sig_int = $SIG{'INT'} || '';
$SIG{'INT'} = sub { $abort = 1; };

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and handling $abort later in the code. Now, on occasion, one of my users has noticed that if he hits CTRL-C, he actually causes a SIGTERM in the select() call I use to act as my heartbeat timer. Why would this happen? I've read through all the books I have and cannot find why this would be.

The big problem with this is that Perl 5.005_2 doesn't remove the job from Solaris 2.6. As the application is a resource hog, this causes the server to come to a slow and grinding halt.

1) Is trapping $SIG{'TERM'} going to be useful? 2) Why is select() throwing a SIGTERM in the first place? 3) Why is it just one account and not another? I cannot reproduce it from my account, but can from his at will.

(Yes, I know I should be using Sockets, but I haven't upgraded the application to do so. Perl5.6 isn't coming for a while, so I have to make do with what I've got.)

In reply to Handling SIGTERM by satchboost

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