Perl forward SIGINT to parent process from `system` command

Question

If I have a long-running system command like apt-cache search , is there a way to forward a SIGINT sent via ^C

Answer 1

Make the child the head of a process group, then send the signal to the whole process group.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;

use POSIX qw( setpgid );

my $child_pid;

$SIG{INT} = sub {
    kill INT => -$child_pid if $child_pid;
    exit(0x80 | 2);  # 2 = SIGINT
};

my $child_pid = fork();
if (!$child_pid) {
    setpgid($$);
    exec 'apt-cache', 'search', 'hi';
}

WAIT: {
   no autodie;
   waitpid($child_pid, 0);
   redo WAIT if $? == -1 and $!{EINTR};
   die $! if $? == -1;
}

exit( ( $? >> 8 ) | ( 0x80 | ( $? & 0x7F ) ) );