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#4 Perl scripts cannot be interrupted properly

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2008-02-09
2008-02-09
Ed Zaron
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Since I have been installing the IOM on a bunch of systems recently, I thought I would make a note of this problem: The perl scripts have unpredictable behavior when a css you specifically client process is interrupted.
Examples:
1) Install script just blasts onward even if programs do not compile or parts fail. This is especially annoying since the results are not logged, so you don't know it fails unless you happen to capture the output.
2) The IOM components are executed from Perl, but there is no check for the exit status of the client programs to look for failure.
3) Ctrl-C doesn't seem to interrupt the parent Perl script, it just kills the child process.

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