Re (tilly) 1: Why does my parent panic when comitting serial infanticide?

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Your Perl is fine. Perl's signal handling is just flaky. File a bug report using perlbug, let p5p know (yet again) that people Really Do Care About This.

In the meantime you will likely want to rethink your approach to not need signals. For one idea you might try POE which has come up here before. Or poll for keyboard input.

Sorry I don't have a nicer answer for you.

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Re: Re (tilly) 1: Why does my parent panic when comitting serial infanticide? by emptynet (Sexton) on Nov 29, 2000 at 04:23 UTC
Thanks tilly - I feel better knowing I wasn't insane after all. I'm using Term::Readkey to test keys for input, I just skipped that code in my post. I'll take a closer look at POE - but this may be overkill for my purposes. Cheers! Mike.	[reply]

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