Papo Napolitano wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using the "select undef, undef, undef, 60" trick to sleep for 60 > seconds. > But it seems to not work after I do a couple of forks like this:
... > Any clue as to what could be causing this behaviour? Yes. You are using a function for its side effects. The particular interaction with fork I'm not sure about, but Perl has a much more direct means to use timing in an application If you need greater granularity than the seconds use in the sleep function, check out Time::HiRes. It's sweet--and direct. Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
