(this question was originally posted on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5560866/perl-5-10-0-signal-handler-issue)

Interrupting the program below with Ctrl + C causes a "Segmentation fault" with perl 5.10.0. It works correctly with perl 5.8.8. Any idea why?

#!/usr/bin/perl

# just changing the shebang line to use perl 5.10.0 causes
# it to seg fault when interrupted with Ctrl + C

use strict;
use warnings;

$SIG{INT}=\&clean;

sub clean {
    print 'caught';
}
sleep 10;
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The perl 5.10 version is:

$ perl5.10.0 -v

This is perl, v5.10.0 built for i686-linux-thread-multi
(with 3 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2007, Larry Wall

Binary build 1002 [283697] provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveSt
+ate.com
Built Jan 10 2008 07:35:18
...
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The linux distribution:

$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5 (mockbuild@hs20-bc2-3.build.redhat.co
+m)
(gcc version  4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Wed Aug 19 04:
+00:49 EDT 2009
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Thanks