in reply to fork process + SIG handlers

Note that $SIG{KILL} is not really assigned. That is intentional by the OS. The reason is that root needs a way to poleaxe a runaway process.

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Zaxo

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Re^2: fork process + SIG handlers
by BUU (Prior) on Dec 04, 2004 at 04:58 UTC
    What? Assigned? Sure it is. $SIG{KILL} is a perfectly valid signal handler. The only difference between it and sigint is that you can't actually catch a sigkill, you can just respond to it. Or am I thinking of sigterm..
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