Re^2: Dormus interruptus

[pbeckingham]

Thank you. I did not think of this, and it does exactly what I wanted, which is to interrupt the sleep calls.

[tachyon]

Usual caveats about signals not being safe but if you use INT you can also catch ^C automaticlly to do a neat cleanup & exit. As an aside I also use a strategy like:

$dbh = DBI->connect( .... );
END{ $dbh->disconnect if $dbh }

to ensure clean database disconnects, having exhaused the available supply of connections in the past.