>>>>> "JNP" == Joshua N Pritikin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JNP> On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 11:06:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> well, i finally spent a little serious time and found my stupid bug. bad
>> hash name in a constructor method vs. its use in another method. it
>> passed undef as a socket/fd to Event::io->new. even though that was my
>> bug, it should have caused a clean exit/die from event.pm so i feel this
>> is a bug.
JNP> Hm. I'm not sure. Certainly, it is reasonable to clear the fd like:
JNP> $io_watcher->fd(undef);
would that stop/cancel the watcher? what effect does it have other than
to clear the attribute?
JNP> Are you saying that you want a warning if that happens in the
JNP> constructor?
i think that is what happened so it looks like a good place for a
warning. makes no sense to do an io event on an undef fd.
uri
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