Hello fellow monks, I am writing a program built around a loop on a IO::Select object. So far so good. Now I need to throw in a task that must be regularly executed. So I thought setting it as a SIGALRM handler. Sounds simple: 
use strict;
use warnings;

use IO::Select;
use IO::Socket;
use POSIX   qw< :signal_h >;


my $port = 6681;

my $listen = IO::Socket::INET->new(
    Proto       => "tcp",
    LocalPort   => $port,
    Listen      => 10,
    Timeout     => 10,
) or die "Can't bind socket to port $port: $!";

my $select = IO::Select->new($listen);

print STDERR "listing on port $port\n";

my $alarm_handler = sub {
    print STDERR "! alarm handler\n";
    alarm(2);
};

my $sigset = POSIX::SigSet->new(SIGALRM);
my $sa_alarm = POSIX::SigAction->new($alarm_handler, $sigset, SA_RESTA
+RT);
sigaction(SIGALRM, $sa_alarm);
#$SIG{ALRM} = $alarm_handler;
alarm(2);

while (my @ready = $select->can_read) {
    for my $fh (@ready) {
        if ($fh == $listen) {
            my $sock = $listen->accept;
            $select->add($sock);
        }
        else {
            # ...
        }
    }
}

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Execpt that when running this program, it outputs: 
$ perl sigalarm.pl
listing on port 6681
! alarm handler

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and exits after the first SIGALRM. What is the obvious thing I'm missing to make the while restart (apart from nesting it in a while(1) { .. } loop)?

In reply to IO::Select and alarm() by Maddingue

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