See also the sigtrap documentation.

Here's some simple test code to play with: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# Test code to demonstrate signals.
# A file is created, then removed by the signal handler.

use strict;
use warnings;
use sigtrap;
use IO::Handle;

use sigtrap handler => \&TermHandler, 'normal-signals';

my $mystery = "/tmp/mystery_date.txt";

sub TermHandler
{
    my $signal = shift;
    print STDERR "TermHandler: $signal signal received at ".localtime(
+).".\n";
    unlink($mystery) if -f $mystery;
    die("death");
}

# Create file and sleep forever
open(OUT, ">>", $mystery) || die("Cannot open $mystery: $!");
autoflush OUT 1;
autoflush STDOUT 1;

while (1)
{
    print OUT "The time is now ".localtime()."\n";
    print     "The time is now ".localtime()."\n";
    sleep(2);
}

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