Improve your SIG{__DIE__} handler?

[Timbus]

Hi,
I found myself here because a coworker found bug #73 in your nagios plugins repo, and nearly tried to fork NetAddr::IP::InetBase thinking it was a fault in that module. Luckily I did some quick digging to see that it was a $SIG{__DIE__} handler in our code breaking everything. It was undoubtedly the same issue affecting check_kafka.pl

I'm wondering if you haven't tried using $EXCEPTIONS_BEING_CAUGHT or $^S inside your die handler to prevent it from exiting if you don't need it to.

Better yet -- you can always stop exiting from your $SIG{__DIE__} handler which would allow exceptions to bubble up naturally. You might even be able to avoid using the signal handler entirely.. Read the bottom couple paragraphs of the signal var for more information on avoiding $SIG{__DIE__}.