> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Dubois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 2:24 PM
> To: Steven Manross; perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com
> Subject: RE: sleep oddness
>
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2006, Steven Manross wrote:
> > Has anyone seen an issue where "sleep 1;" causes an
> infinite loop in
> > perl (100% CPU usage -- no movement in the script)? Build
> 816 in case
> > it matters.. It just started happenning today in a script I wrote a
> > very long time ago and haven't modified in a while.
> Similarly, running
> > perl from the command prompt and entering my only command as "sleep
> > 1;", doesn't exhibit this behavior (hang).
>
> It is a bug in 816. Please update to 817; 816 is a "bad" release.
>
> If you can't update right away, you can add the following
> line to the top of your script to avoid some of the problems in 816:
>
I'll update.
Thanks,
Steven
> BEGIN { alarm(0) }
>
> Cheers,
> -Jan
>
>
>
>
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