I was writing a simple scratch script that did little more than just invoke a command passed to it on the command line, and read its output. To my consternation, whenever it ran, system load spiked to 100% and remained there indefinitely. I soon realized my mistake; I had written something like
open(my $fh, "$0 |") rather than open(my $fh, "$ARGV[0] |") ... Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]