Handling and propagating signals

[David Cantrell]

Someone just reported what I'm inclined to treat as a bug in rsnapshot.
Boiled down to a minimal example, it's this:

perl -e '$SIG{TERM} = sub { exit() }; system("sleep 60")'

Now send that process a SIGTERM.  The perl process promptly exits.  The
command I ran using system(), however, does not.  I want my signal
handler to propagate the signal to children as well.

Because the signal is received while perl is waiting for system() to
return, I can't see any way in which I can possibly know the child's
PID without having to grovel through the process table.

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