Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Signal List Options

You can specify your own list of options:

use sigtrap qw(BUS SEGV PIPE ABRT);

or use one of the following built-in option lists:

error-signals

Signals that indicate a serious problem: ABRT, BUS, EMT, FPE, ILL, QUIT, SEGV, SYS, and TRAP.

normal-signals

Signals a program is most likely to encounter: HUP, INT, PIPE, and TERM.

old-interface-signals

Default. Signals trapped by default in older versions of sigtrap: ABRT, BUS, EMT, FPE, ILL, PIPE, QUIT, SEGV, SYS, TERM, and TRAP.