On Thursday, Nov 27, 2003, at 17:49 US/Pacific, John W. Krahn wrote:
Philipp Traeder wrote:
[..]
If I am not mistaken, this is more or less exactly what I am doing
right
now - the only problem I have got with this is that the user is
interrupted in his work when the 'long_action' finishes - like t
Philipp Traeder wrote:
Hi Phillip,
Sorry. That last example cheated with a long, hard-coded wait. Below is
something that speaks a little more closely to the problem.
...
> b) How can I set up the ReadLine() part in a way that the user is able
> to type new actions, but can receive new message
Philipp Traeder wrote:
>
...
> b) How can I set up the ReadLine() part in a way that the user is able
> to type new actions, but can receive new messages (from finished long
> actions) as well? I have played around with Term::ReadKey, and ended up
> with something like this:
Are you looking for
Philipp Traeder wrote:
>
> > It is pretty simple, the perlipc man page has some good examples, but it
> > is basically like this:
> >
> > elsif ( $cmd eq 'long_action' ) {
> > defined( my $pid = fork ) or die "Cannot fork: $!";
> > unless ( $pid ) {
> > # execute th
On Thursday, Nov 27, 2003, at 14:10 US/Pacific, Philipp Traeder wrote:
[..]
The danger of primates banging on keyboards is - of course - always
existent and quite high, but in this case I would settle for a first
version that would be usable by more or less normal beings of the
species homo [EMAIL
> Not related to your question but, have you thought of using a dispatch
> table instead?
>
> sub help {
> # process help
> }
>
> sub long_action {
> # process long_action
> }
>
> my %process = (
> help=> \&help,
> long_action => \&long_action,
> simple_cmd =
On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 21:37, drieux wrote:
>
> On Thursday, Nov 27, 2003, at 09:58 US/Pacific, Douglas Lentz wrote:
>
> > Re: (A) What's the best way for the child to inform the parent that
> > it's done?.
> >
> Given that his question (A) is about 'informing'
> the parent that it is finished, h
Philipp Traeder wrote:
>
> Good morning everybody,
Hello,
> I am writing a small console application, allowing the user to perform
> some actions via a shell-like interface. The basics of this were rather
> easy, and with the help of some very nice CPAN modules (i.e.
> Base::Shell), I have got t
On Thursday, Nov 27, 2003, at 09:58 US/Pacific, Douglas Lentz wrote:
Philipp Traeder wrote:
Good morning everybody,
[..]
# ...
elsif ($cmd eq 'long_action') {
if (!fork) {
# execute the action in the child process
sleep 10;
# TODO: noti
Philipp Traeder wrote:
Good morning everybody,
I am writing a small console application, allowing the user to perform
some actions via a shell-like interface. The basics of this were rather
easy, and with the help of some very nice CPAN modules (i.e.
Base::Shell), I have got tab-completion, a hel
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