I have 1 executable which runs several process in sequence. Since these processes takes a lot of time, I want the executable to work as a daemon and print to me it's current status when I'm sending a signal to it.

I've made all this work, but every time I send a signal to it to get the current status it kills the current process to give me the information. So do I need to set some parameters or something to make sure children can work unaffected by parents signal status?
This is my code in short: 

$SIG{USR1} = \&status;

 sub status () {
   $SIG{USR1} = \&status; 
   print "\n Status is: $status";
 }

 foreach $path (@paths) {
   my $pid = open3(*CMD_IN, *CMD_OUT, *CMD_ERR, $path);
   $status = $path;
   waitpid($pid, 0);
}

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Any suggestions ?

In reply to Signal to parent-process. Does it affect it's children? by rapide

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