Re: Forking & Signals

[Neil Bowers]

Now if we take that same simple program and either
don't define $SIG{'TERM'} or set it to 'DEFAULT' we
get END when the parent dies, but when we kill the
child &cleanup isn't run (duh) but neither is END. Is
that standard behaviour?

The following is from perlfaq8 (perldoc perlfaq8):

        The END block isn't called when untrapped signals kill the program,
        though, so if you use END blocks you should also use

                use sigtrap qw(die normal-signals);

Which I think is what you're after.

Neil