$SIG{CHLD} and system

From: Heinrich Mislik (Heinrich.Mislik_at_univie.ac.at)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: 30 Sep 2004 12:41:04 GMT

perl -e '$SIG{CHLD} = "IGNORE";system("date") and die'

gives me

Thu Sep 30 14:34:22 MSZ 2004
Died at -e line 1.

I can understand, why this happens. But is it documented? Shouldn't system
set up it's own signalhandlers? The function system in C does so. Does this mean, that perl does not call this function?

Any thoughts

Cheers 

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