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I see several problems:

You place a lot of code into your signal handler. Older perls have real problems with that. Newer perls try to cope with the underlying problem by default, but can still show the old behaviour. See "Signals" and "Deferred Signals (Safe Signals)" in perlipc. The safe way of handling signals is just to set a flag and handle the signal in the main loop of the program.
Your signal handler modifies errno a.k.a. $!.
The code both inside and outside of your signal handler lacks lots of error checks, and you are not using autodie.

Alexander

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In reply to Re: Errno being set to strange values when using IO::Poll by afoken
in thread Errno being set to strange values when using IO::Poll by eest

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