#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use POSIX(); $|=1; END { exec $0 } #needed to catch internal die's my $sub = sub { exec $0 }; # POSIX unmasks the sigprocmask properly my $sigset = POSIX::SigSet->new(); my $action = POSIX::SigAction->new( $sub, $sigset, &POSIX::SA_NODEFER ); POSIX::sigaction(&POSIX::SIGINT, $action); POSIX::sigaction(&POSIX::SIGUSR1, $action); POSIX::sigaction(&POSIX::SIGTERM, $action); # can still be killed with a kill -9 or SIGKILL # but kill -15 or SIGTERM will restart my $counter = 0; while(1){ print ++$counter,"\n"; if($counter == 4){die} sleep 1; } __END__