A question might be stupid. Is the fork() working in NT or Win98? I tried it before but failed with message the function is not supported by the OS.
Thanks, David -----Original Message----- From: Tom Allebrandi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 1:34 PM To: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [perl-win32-gui-users] Interesting behavior I'm not sure if I should post this on this list or over on the Perl Win32 Users list. Under Win32::GUI version 502 and ActiveState build 623, the following script results in an access violation under NT 4 and an invalid page fault under Win98. NT is only telling me a memory address where the problem is occurring. Win98 claims that the invalid page fault is in Perl56.DLL. #! perl use Win32::GUI; # ** 1 ** fork(); # ** 2 ** # # The $' (or the $`) var has to be present in order to cause the crash, but # since it's not defined, use the "if (0)" to avoid interpreting it # if (0) { $'; # ** 3 ** } If you take out any of the lines marked "# ** n **" the problem goes away! At one point, I had a print("Goodbye\n"); as the last statement in the script. I got both of them (one from each branch of the fork()) which suggests that the problem is occurring in the rundown of Perl itself. If I had to guess, something is not getting cloned properly during the fork() and it's invalid when the GUI destructor(s) get invoked at termination. Cute huh? --- Tom Tom Allebrandi [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-GUI-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-GUI-Users@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perl-win32-gui-users
