On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 09:48:43AM -0800, Andrew A. Chen wrote: > Whee. The test results that everyone dreads... win32. > > Just a few comments on this... there appear to be several warnings on the > tests below on Kernel.pm, line 1267. After googling for a bit, I found > this reference to waitpid() on win32 not particularly liking -1 if you want > a non-blocking wait... I have yet to fully understand Kernel.pm, so this > may or may not apply, but the original message is at > http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/perl-win32-users/555975 and > below are the test results. Cheers. :)
[...] >No matter what I do, I cannot get the non blocking >waitfor to not block. NT4p6 perl 5.6.0 bld 623. >Does it work in NT. waitpid() will perform non-blocking on Win32 if given a correct PID and not -1. Dear gods! Must I track child PIDs and poll for them explicitly? [moaning and wailing and gnashing of teeth] Time to write a test case. Whee! Anyone have sshd running on a win32 machine with AS perl 629 or later? I promise to use it only for good. -- Rocco Caputo / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / poe.perl.org / poe.sourceforge.net
