On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 05:05:26PM -0600, Dan Muey wrote:
> perl -e 'print "joe's mama";'
> Obvo=iously won't work
> perl -e 'print "joe\'s mama";'
> And any other versions of \\' all fail.
As you were told, this is a question of your shell. If you are
using a bourne shell (zsh, bash, ksh, etc...)
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:27:48AM +, Ajey Kulkarni wrote:
> perl t.pl
> Name "main::FH" used only once: possible typo at t.pl line 6.
You opened a file, but you do not read from the file. Just opened
it. This doesn't make much sense. So you get a warning.
> cat t.pl
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
>
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:48:17PM -0800, david wrote:
> eval{
>
> local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die 'alarm' };
>
> $child = fork;
>
> die 'fork' unless(defined $child);
>
> if($child){
> #--
> #-- give child 5 seconds to complete
>
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:04:01AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> eval {
> local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "alarm\n" };
> alarm 10;
> system($prog, @args);
> alarm 0;
> };
> if($@ =~ /alarm/) {
> # have to kill $prog;
# I tried with 'use POSIX qw/sys_wait_h/;'
my $kid = waitpid -1
Hello,
I'm doing this:
eval {
local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "alarm\n" };
alarm 10;
system($prog, @args);
alarm 0;
}
if($@ =~ /alarm/) {
# have to kill $prog;
}
The problem is, that the process is still running after the perl
script has exited. And I have to kill it by hand. But I want p
