Signal Handling in a Child Process

anshumangoyal has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am forking a child process (a perl file is called in that child process) and in that child there is a Signal Handling Routine written. I want that when I send a signal to this child (SIG USR1), it should exit giving return code 110. This is my Code:

    $SIG{USR1} = 'HANDLER';
    sub HANDLER {
        print "Got 'USR1'. Exiting with Return Code '110' !!\n";
        exit 110;
    }
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But with this it exits from Handler with 110 and not from the child. Is there anything I am doing wrong here?

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Re: Signal Handling in a Child Process by aitap (Curate) on Aug 08, 2012 at 14:56 UTC
Perhaps you need to use local there? $ perl -E' if (my $pid = fork) { say "My pid is $$, child is $pid"; local $SIG{USR1} = sub { say "parent"; exit 0 }; sleep 1 while 1 } else { local $SIG{USR1} = sub { say "child"; exit 0 }; sleep 1 while 1 }' & [1] 19681 My pid is 19681, child is 19683 $ kill -USR1 19683 child $ kill -USR1 19681 parent [1]+ Done perl -E'if (my $pid = fork) { say "My pi +d is $$, child is $pid"; local $SIG{USR1} = sub { say "parent"; exit +0 }; sleep 1 while 1 } else { local $SIG{USR1} = sub { say "child"; e +xit 0 }; sleep 1 while 1} [download] Or have I misunderstood something? Sorry if my advice was wrong.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Signal Handling in a Child Process by Illuminatus (Curate) on Aug 08, 2012 at 17:29 UTC
I am forking a child process (a perl file is called in that child process)... I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you mean that you are forking a child that is, in turn, forking a perl script?. When I run the following: `#! /usr/bin/perl sub HANDLER { print "Got 'USR1'. Exiting with Return Code '110' !!\n"; exit 110; } $SIG{USR1} = 'HANDLER'; while (1) { sleep(60); }` [download] In background, and send SIGUSR1 to it, it immediately exits with code 110 (if only the HANDLER function had returned, the script would have continued to run). fnord	[reply] [d/l]