Re^2: Get parent process to handle signals for its children?

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For example, doing something along this lines:

while (1) {
  print "sleeping\n";
  system 'sleep', 2;
  warn "system: $!" if -1 == $?;
  my $signal_caught = $? & 127;
  die "Child got a SIGINT" if 2 == $signal_caught;
}
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Re^3: Get parent process to handle signals for its children? by slaniel (Acolyte) on Jul 12, 2006 at 19:10 UTC
Oh, I see! I had forgotten about `$?`. That seems to get me most of the rest of what I want. Beautiful! Thanks so much for the clarification.	[reply] [d/l]

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