On Aug 7, Allison, Jason (JALLISON) said:
>Can someone explain the interaction of POSIX ERRNO and PERL scripts? When
>does ERRNO get set and is it set with each PERL call? I cant seem to track
>when '$!' is set. Sometimes it will be set to 0, and others 2. I am having
>difficultly nailing its
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 02:43:12PM -0400, Allison, Jason (JALLISON) wrote:
>if (scalar(@ReadyHandles) > 0)
>{
> ...
>else
>{
> if (! $ERRNO)
> {
> ...
> }
> else
> {
> # Error on select() call
> unless ($ERRNO == EINTR)
> {
>
Quote:
"Why are you bothering to look at $! here?"
The snippets below are just that, snippets. We are in the progress of
testing the upgrade from 5.6.1 to 5.8.0. Everything works great with 5.6.1.
When using 5.8.0 (5.8.0 works fine in the http://world.std.com/~aep/ptkdb/
debugger), ERRNO is bei
"Allison, Jason (JALLISON)" wrote:
>
>if (scalar(@ReadyHandles) > 0)
>{
> ...
>else
>{
> if (! $ERRNO)
Here is the problem. You are trying to use ERRNO like a return code, assuming
it is set to 0 if nothing is wrong. You can't assume that. Use it only in the
context of th
the 'use lib' call?
Thanks again,
Jason
-Original Message-
From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 1:58 PM
To: Allison, Jason (JALLISON)
Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: Re: ERRNO ... What am I missing
On Aug 7,
On Aug 7, Allison, Jason (JALLISON) said:
>#!/usr/local/bin/perl
> printf "Hello World\n";
> printf "ERRNO: %d\n", $!;
># use lib "$ENV{RTM_HOME}/rtm/src/vtm";
># printf "ERRNO: %d\n", $!;
>$ t
>Hello World
>ERRNO: 0
Why are you bothering to look at $! here?
>#!/usr/local/bin/perl
> pri
