I was composing this perl poem and I ran into a strange issue with the kill command. I've only used it once before (Perl 5.10.0 on Ubuntu) and it worked fine, but this time, every time I try to kill ALRM, $$, the program quits. I tried kill 14, $$, same issue. I had set a signal handler for SIGALRM:

$SIG{ALRM} = sub {
   print "Alarming!\n";
};

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...but it doesn't print. Any guesses as to what's going on here?

> perl -MConfig -e "print $Config{sig_name}"
ZERO HUP INT QUIT ILL NUM05 NUM06 NUM07 FPE KILL NUM10 SEGV NUM12 PIPE
+ ALRM TERM
 NUM16 NUM17 NUM18 NUM19 CHLD BREAK ABRT STOP NUM24 CONT CLD

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print pack("A25",pack("V*",map{1919242272+$_}(34481450,-49737472,6228,0,-285028276,6979,-1380265972)))

In reply to Signals in Strawberry Perl: Name or number? by bv

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