Re: Anything better than Signal? - For Async Procsess notification

2006-02-27 Thread David Nicol
On 2/27/06, Arijit Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, I was just wondering if there is any other method of async process > notification that I can use for this scenario apart from Signals? Basically, > my requirement is, I have a script which should keep on doing its job but > after 300 secs of

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2006-02-27 Thread Brian Raven
Sandeep Deshpande <> wrote: > Dear All, > Very recently our sys. Administrator upgraded our Perl v5.8.6. to > 5.8.8. > This version is failing to run all our programs based on > threads/Threads. It gives following message. > > - > Message

Anything better than Signal? - For Async Procsess notification

2006-02-27 Thread Arijit Das
Hi,   I am using Perl5.04 and right now, I do not have the option of upgrading to higher versions for political reasons within the org.   With perl 5.04, if I set up a $SIG{ALRM} handler, then I have noticed that my process some times gets into an infinite sleep while handling the ALRM signal.

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2006-02-27 Thread Sandeep Deshpande
Dear All, Very recently our sys. Administrator upgraded our Perl v5.8.6. to 5.8.8. This version is failing to run all our programs based on threads/Threads. It gives following message. - Message -- This Perl hasn't b