CHILD_ERROR and forking within a child

2005-09-07 Thread steve abrams
* code 'paraphrased' for simplicity * Hi all, I have a script which goes to a subroutine. Within the subroutine, there exists: $pid = fork; push(@pids, $pid); unless ($pid) { my $var = new Object; if (not $var->method_that_evokes_a_child()) {Exit;} exit 2; } where the Ex

Re: Passing Hash Reference from Class Method?

2005-01-19 Thread steve abrams
rencing a little better. Thanks again for previous help, Steve steve abrams wrote: How do I get a hash back from a class method call? Without a class involved (works): sub hashit { my %hash = ("a", "1", "b", "2"); return \%hash; } my $hash_ref = &h

Passing Hash Reference from Class Method?

2005-01-19 Thread steve abrams
How do I get a hash back from a class method call? Without a class involved (works): sub hashit { my %hash = ("a", "1", "b", "2"); return \%hash; } my $hash_ref = &hashit(); %%% With class (doesn't work): sub hashit {

Net::FTP and filehandle with get()

2005-01-17 Thread steve abrams
Hi all, First post to the group. I have two questions, but they go hand in hand. The first: Net::FTP documentation reports that get syntax is: get ( REMOTE_FILE [, LOCAL_FILE [, WHERE]] ) I do the following (with $ftp initialization omitted here): local $fh = IO::File->new_tmpfile; $ftp->get($dum