Current Perl documentation can be found at perldoc.perl.org.
Here is our local, out-dated (pre-5.6) version:
You can't. You need to imitate the
system()
call (see the perlipc manpage for sample code) and then have a signal handler for the
INT signal that passes the signal on to the
subprocess. Or you can check for it:
$rc = system($cmd); if ($rc & 127) { die "signal death" }