For more information see $ perldoc perlport
Not much more information, mind you, but at least a positive statement that alarm is not implemented on Win32. This document also describes all the other stuff without which I can't believe an operating system can survive commercially... Cary Millsap Hotsos Enterprises, Ltd. http://www.hotsos.com Upcoming events: - Hotsos Clinic, Oct 1-3 San Francisco, Oct 15-17 Dallas, Dec 9-11 Honolulu - 2003 Hotsos Symposium on OracleR System Performance, Feb 9-12 Dallas - Jonathan Lewis' Optimising Oracle, Nov 19-21 Dallas -----Original Message----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 6:08 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Unfortunately, this is one of those things that *doesn't* work on Windoze, no support in the kernel. Jared "Bob Metelsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/25/2002 01:48 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: RE: How to reproduce a hanging connect attempt > In Perl: > > my $dbh = ''; > eval { > local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die }; > alarm 60; > > my $dbh = DBI->connect( > 'dbi:Oracle:' . $db, > 'scott','tiger', > ); > }; > alarm 0; > > unless ($dbh) { > print "db $db is down"; > } > Humm do you know what the alarm function on windows 2000 pro is?? Im gettting The Unsupported function alarm function is unimplemented at C:\evaldb.pl line 11. It looks like alarm is a perl function I can see the doc from Perldoc -f alarm Nevertheless I get the unsupported function Line 11 is alarm 0; ?? Thanks rob -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Bob Metelsky INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Cary Millsap INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).