[libvirt-users] Handling connection closes in (older) Sys::Virt

I hope this is the correct mailing list for discussing the Sys::Virt Perl module. It appears that the most recent version has a new method called register_close_callback that, I believe, can be used to catch errors when the connection to libvirt is closed, e.g. due to libvirt restart or a network related issue. (I've been testing this simply by killing the the SSH process in the libvirt server.) However, Debian still ships libvirt 0.9.12 in stable backports and testing, as probably do many other mainstream distributions. The latest Perl bindings that can be installed from CPAN is thus 0.9.12 and it does not have support for close callbacks. Not only that, when a Perl program loses the (ssh) connection to libvirt, Perl just crashes: Program received signal SIGPIPE, Broken pipe. 0x00007ffff73de0d0 in __write_nocancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 Setting a $SIG{PIPE} handler does not seem to help. Is there any possibility of a Perl program surviving and gracefully handling a closed libvirt connection with libvirt version 0.9.12 or older? Henrik