The basic premise was that I needed to catch
all errors from a series of steps, and if there were
any errors in the middle, I needed to do whatever
to undo the changes:
while(1) {
eval {
do_this();
do_that();
fork_and_stuff();
and_why_not_do_this_as_well();
};
if( $@ ) {
undo_changes();
log( "there was, like, something wrong: $@" );
}
}
It just so happened that one of the subs actually forked, and hence the problem. I wasn't trying to eval the fork() per se... ;)
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