NAME

Devel::NoGlobalSig - croak when a global %SIG is installed

SYNOPSIS

This is a diagnostic tool for detecting where some code has over-written a singnal handler (in the global %SIG) without using local().

  perl -MDevel::NoGlobalSig=die your_program

ABOUT

The installation of global signal handlers by some distant code can be rather surprising. This gives you a way to detect where this happened by installing an exploding subroutine in the handler slot.

This is a diagnostic tool. It is not recommended to employ this in production code (but if you find a good reason to do that, please drop me a note.)

USAGE

Typically, you will simply want to import this from the command line, e.g. when running some test which is mysteriously failing after integrating two pieces of previously working code.

  perl -MDevel::NoGlobalSig=die t/never_failed_before.t

If your frontend code installs its own global handler for good reason, you'll want to import this after that happens (your handler will be wrapped in a protective exploding shell.)

  BEGIN {$SIG{__DIE__} = \&my_die_handler};
  use Devel::NoGlobalSig qw(die warn hup);

Signal Names

The arguments to import() may be a list of upper-case or lower-case versions of the handler names. The special signals __WARN__ and __DIE__ may be passed as simply 'warn' and 'die', respectively.

See perlipc for details.

AUTHOR

Eric Wilhelm @ <ewilhelm at cpan dot org>

http://scratchcomputing.com/

BUGS

If you found this module on CPAN, please report any bugs or feature requests through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

If you pulled this development version from my /svn/, please contact me directly.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2009 Eric L. Wilhelm, All Rights Reserved.

NO WARRANTY

Absolutely, positively NO WARRANTY, neither express or implied, is offered with this software. You use this software at your own risk. In case of loss, no person or entity owes you anything whatsoever. You have been warned.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.