On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:25:54AM +0100, Matt Lawrence wrote: > I haven't had a chance to test any of this on the latest perl, 5.8.8 is > the latest I've tried it with.
Odd, I'm on 5.8.8 and don't seem to be seeing the same behaviour: $ perl sigdie.pl & [1] 14327 $ ps -Fp 14327 UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD cwright 14327 1335 99 1097 1436 0 12:01 pts/11 00:00:08 perl sigdie.pl ... $ ps -Fp 14327 UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD cwright 14327 1335 98 1097 1436 0 12:01 pts/11 00:00:53 perl sigdie.pl Oooh, but interestingly, if I chmod the script and run it: $ chmod 0755 sigdie.pl $ ./sigdie.pl & [1] 14421 $ ps -Fp 14421 UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD cwright 14421 1335 94 3404 10384 0 12:03 pts/11 00:00:06 /usr/bin/perl ./sigdie.pl ... $ ps -Fp 14421 UID PID PPID C SZ RSS PSR STIME TTY TIME CMD cwright 14421 1335 98 12863 48308 0 12:03 pts/11 00:00:35 /usr/bin/perl ./sigdie.pl -- Chisel Wright e: chi...@herlpacker.co.uk w: http://www.herlpacker.co.uk/ You're the font of all knowledge? It's just a shame someone pulled the plug.