At 03:26 2002-03-18 -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote: >[...]Use alarm and skip the test if $Config{d_alarm} is false (see >t/op/alarm.t for an example). If you think the infinite loop is due >to a programming glitch, as opposed to a cross-platform issue, this >will be enough.
Ya know, for a while I've wished there were a rather tidier to way to ask if something were implemented. Like perl->can_alarm, via a class "perl" that just has a clever AUTOLOAD for these things. -- Sean M. Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.spinn.net/~sburke/