in reply to Signals in OpenBSD

Do you really have: 
$SIG{INT} = ⪚

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as you've written in there? If so, you are running eg when you are setting up the assignment. Perhaps you mean either of: 
$SIG{INT} = \⪚

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or 
$SIG{INT} = '&eg';

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Both of which delay the invocation until it's needed.

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Re: Re: Signals in OpenBSD
by deprecated (Priest) on Mar 18, 2001 at 20:20 UTC
    Yeah, merlyn, goofed when I wrote that here.

    I wanted to update for everyone. jcwren provided me with this very useful node covering signals in a few operating systems (solaris and FreeBSD). I also dug up this node by tilly which describes the brokenness of signals in perl.

    In this case I decided to not worry about signals (since this is a BSD-only program, I dont need to worry about signals on linux, which work).

    You can read perldoc perlipc for more information.

    brother dep.

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