Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] Trapping exit and die

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 17.02 +0000 1999.08.04, Bart Lateur wrote:
>On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 10:39:41 -0500, jason.whitehead@natinst.com wrote:
>
>>I was wondering if there is any way to trap the exit and die calls. I
>>need to be
>>able to take a script that is to be executed by Perl from C and make sure
>>that
>>any calls to exit or die are not called. Note, I need to be able to do
>>this from
>>C/C++ because I am running Perl scripts from an application written in C/C++.
>>Does anyone know a simple way of solving this problem.
>
>exit(): no luck. But die() is easy to trap using eval().
>
>You'd better replace all accurences of exit() with die(). Uh... can you
>overload exit()? I couldn't...

I could.

  #!perl -w
  use Foo;
  eval { exit 0 };
  warn $@ if $@;
  print "ha!\n";

Foo.pm:

  package Foo;
  require Exporter;
  @ISA = 'Exporter';
  @EXPORT = 'exit';
  sub exit { die @_ }

Returns:

  # 0.
  File ':Foo.pm'; Line 5
  ha!

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