Handling of SIGINT

[Andy Armstrong]

On 19 Feb 2009, at 17:34, David Golden wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Andy Armstrong <andy at hexten.net>  
> wrote:
>> Why isn't the SIGINT going to the test script?
>
> I think on Win32, at least, SIGINT goes to everything on the console
> simultaneously.  In CPAN::Reporter::Smoker, I just trap it and prompt
> to continue -- I don't bother killing off the child process as I
> assume it's dead.  (Possibly a bad assumption if the child process
> traps SIGINT, too.)

Ah.

> So maybe check if the child is alive with kill 0 and if it is, kill it
> with TERM or KILL.


Nothing's ever as simple as you think it's going to be, is it? :)

-- 
Andy Armstrong, Hexten