05-11-2010
Perl | catching the letter 'Q' for exit.
Hi all,
I made a simple script with a prompt menu in Perl. All working good, but I want to add an option while the program is running that on every time when the user press 'Q' the program will exit.
I know I can use $SIG{'INT'} or any other %SIG option. This option is a unix signal which I don't want to use.
Is there any way to do it?
In the menu there is an option to press Q for exit but I want to enable it even when the script is running .
Thanks dudes,
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
net::server::sig
Net::Server::SIG(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Net::Server::SIG(3)
NAME
Net::Server::SIG - adpf - Safer signal handling
SYNOPSIS
use Net::Server::SIG qw(register_sig check_sigs);
use IO::Select ();
use POSIX qw(WNOHANG);
my $select = IO::Select->new();
register_sig(PIPE => 'IGNORE',
HUP => 'DEFAULT',
USR1 => sub { print "I got a SIG $_[0]
"; },
USR2 => sub { print "I got a SIG $_[0]
"; },
CHLD => sub { 1 while (waitpid(-1, WNOHANG) > 0); },
);
### add some handles to the select
$select->add(*STDIN);
### loop forever trying to stay alive
while ( 1 ){
### do a timeout to see if any signals got passed us
### while we were processing another signal
my @fh = $select->can_read(10);
my $key;
my $val;
### this is the handler for safe (fine under unsafe also)
if( &check_sigs() ){
# or my @sigs = &check_sigs();
next unless @fh;
}
my $handle = $fh[@fh];
### do something with the handle
}
DESCRIPTION
Signals in Perl 5 are unsafe. Some future releases may be able to fix some of this (ie Perl 5.8 or 6.0), but it would be nice to have some
safe, portable signal handling now. Clarification - much of the time, signals are safe enough. However, if the program employs forking or
becomes a daemon which can receive many simultaneous signals, then the signal handling of Perl is normally not sufficient for the task.
Using a property of the select() function, Net::Server::SIG attempts to fix the unsafe problem. If a process is blocking on select() any
signal will short circuit the select. Using this concept, Net::Server::SIG does the least work possible (changing one bit from 0 to 1).
And depends upon the actual processing of the signals to take place immediately after the the select call via the "check_sigs" function.
See the example shown above and also see the sigtest.pl script located in the examples directory of this distribution.
FUNCTIONS
"register_sig($SIG => &code_ref)"
Takes key/value pairs where the key is the signal name, and the argument is either a code ref, or the words 'DEFAULT' or 'IGNORE'. The
function register_sig must be used in conjuction with check_sigs, and with a blocking select() function call -- otherwise, you will
observe the registered signal mysteriously vanish.
"unregister_sig($SIG)"
Takes the name of a signal as an argument. Calls register_sig with a this signal name and 'DEFAULT' as arguments (same as
register_sig(SIG,'DEFAULT')
"check_sigs()"
Checks to see if any registered signals have occured. If so, it will play the registered code ref for that signal. Return value is
array containing any SIGNAL names that had occured.
AUTHORS
Paul Seamons (paul@seamons.com)
Rob B Brown (rob@roobik.com) - Provided a sounding board and feedback in creating Net::Server::SIG and sigtest.pl.
LICENSE
This package may be distributed under the terms of either the
GNU General Public License
or the
Perl Artistic License
All rights reserved.
perl v5.12.1 2007-02-03 Net::Server::SIG(3)