[rt.cpan.org #102709] Unable to handle SIG interrupts

Wed Jul 08 13:24:01 2015: Request 102709 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by ZDM
       Queue: PAR-Packer
     Subject: Unable to handle SIG interrupts
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       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: [email protected]
      Status: open
 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=102709 >


On Wed Jul 08 09:41:49 2015, RSCHUPP wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sorry for the late response, I'm trying to catch up on open bugs:
> 
> On 2015-03-11 20:17:22, [email protected] wrote:
> > I just used pp to package my app to exe.  It's running well however
> > in my
> > app I catch the $SIG{'INT'} event (ctrl-c) so that I can do some
> > clean up
> > steps before ending.  However, since pp actually creates a parent exe
> > and
> > this exe does not ignore ctrl-c events, the parent closes but my app
> > keeps
> > running but it doesn't run properly without the parent app and does
> > not
> > exit.
> 
> What do you mean when you say "my app ... doesn't run properly and
> does not exit"? Also, is this a "command line" program or does it have
> a GUI (i.e. you packed it using "pp --gui ...")?
> Can you cook up a minimal example that shows the problem?
> 
> Cheers, Roderich

Under windows parent process is only spawn child, waiting until child exited and perform cleanup (if was packed with --clean).

This is obvious, that parent should not exit on CTRL+C. No matter, has child process GUI or this is just command line app.