If i die in the handler, then the whole script would stop processing,not just the eval statement, right?

die inside an eval is a common idiom to have exception handling in Perl (see eval for examples, BTW). If you look at the example by dave_the_m, you'll see that the line after eval {long}; is printed - probably after the user has hit CTRL-C.

Thank you for the clarafication. I modified the code slightly to show this a bit better. Run the following code. Then hit CTRL-C once to abort the eval statement, then wait and then hit CTRL-C to exit completely.

use strict;
$|=1;
sub long { 1 while 1 }
$SIG{INT} = sub { die "got int\n" };
print "SIG{INT}=$SIG{INT}\n";
eval {long};
print "got err: $@\n" if $@;
print "Loop after first eval\n";
while(1){
    select(undef,undef,undef,.25);
    }
print "OK I am a done\n";
__END__
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