Re: what is the value of WNOHANG?

2002-04-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 07:01:15PM -0700, Ahmed Moustafa wrote: > I found it in . It was 0x0001. > > Is use POSIX ":sys_wait_h"; portable? It is on systems that support it. perldoc perlipc > Ahmed Moustafa wrote: > > > > waitpid $pid,&WNOHANG; > > > > > > What is the value of the flag

Re: what is the value of WNOHANG?

2002-04-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 01:52:16PM +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 07:01:15PM -0700, Ahmed Moustafa wrote: > > Ahmed Moustafa wrote: > > > > > > waitpid $pid,&WNOHANG; > > > > > > > > > What is the value of the flag WNOHANG in waitpid? > > > What does it mean when $pid is -

Re: FILE::BASENAME

2002-04-13 Thread eric-sourceforge
On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, Green, Chris wrote: > use FILE::BASENAME > > $record = "D:\\data\\filename.bat"; > > ($name,$path,$suffix) = fileparse($record,@suffixlist); > $basename = basename($record,@suffixlist); > $dirname = dirname($record); Chris: 1. Put a semi-colon after the use sta

Re: Input | Program | Output : help

2002-04-13 Thread drieux
On Friday, April 12, 2002, at 05:27 , John W. Krahn wrote: > "Tirthankar C. Patnaik" wrote: >> Could you give a good reference to this things, IPC, pipes, fifo, >> sockets, >> etc? I could not make much headway, from what I read in the man pages, >> and >> perldoc. > > > The best references fo

Re: what is the value of WNOHANG?

2002-04-13 Thread Ahmed Moustafa
Paul Johnson wrote: >>Is use POSIX ":sys_wait_h"; portable? >> > > It is on systems that support it. It looks like it won't on the Windows systems, right? > >>>What does it mean when $pid is -1? >>> > > It means wait for any child process. Then, the pid's of the child processes don't need to

Re: Mod_Perl -- A very basic question to get started

2002-04-13 Thread Matt C.
To me, this is a surprisingly tough question to answer. I'd say that the primary use of mod_perl is to speed up your pages via Apache::Registry, Apache::PerlRun or your own handlers. However, it's much more than that. 2 keys for me both personally and professionally are: 1) It allows you to do dy

Re: what is the value of WNOHANG?

2002-04-13 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> >>Is use POSIX ":sys_wait_h"; portable? > >> > > > > It is on systems that support it. > > It looks like it won't on the Windows systems, right? E:\Shared\Perl\bin>perl -e "use POSIX ':sys_wait_h';print &WNOHANG" 1 E:\Shared\Perl\bin> Seems portable enough (ActiveState Perl) ;-) Mind you, i

Reading an always changing in real time.

2002-04-13 Thread Brian Smith
I am starting to work on a script that is going to take my RADIUS Detail file, and dump it into a mySQL database. I can get it to run once and hour or anytime via cron, but I want something real-time, that would be pretty much always running as a process / server. Using the "open (myFile, "det

Installing Module

2002-04-13 Thread Ankit Gupta
I have a module name Mail::Mboxparser and I tried to install this module and it says that it needs Mail::Mimetools module. I need to know that to install Mail::Mboxparser, I just need .pm file of Mail::Mimetools or have to install Mail::Mimetools. If someone can shed some light on this, I will be

Re: Reading an always changing in real time.

2002-04-13 Thread Brian Smith
I found it ... never mind! :) open (GWFILE, "brian"); for (;;) { for ($curpos = tell(GWFILE); ; $curpos = tell(GWFILE)) { print $_; # search for some stuff and put it into files } # sleep for a while seek(GWFILE, $curpos, 0); # seek to where we had been } Amazing what happens when one finds whe

Re: Installing Module

2002-04-13 Thread Jonathan E. Paton
> I have a module name Mail::Mboxparser and I tried to install this module and > it says that it needs Mail::Mimetools module. I need to know that to install > Mail::Mboxparser, I just need .pm file of Mail::Mimetools or have to install > Mail::Mimetools. If it needs it, you have to install it.

Re: Scope of my() declared variables WAS( Re: -e $filename...)

2002-04-13 Thread Ahmed Moustafa
Elaine -Hfb- Ashton wrote: > I always found the local, my, our mess pretty confusing and the best > explanation is MJD's "Coping with Scoping" > > http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Namespaces.html > > Make good note of the text in red :) Elaine, thanks a lot for MJD's article. There is a great differ

Re: Scope of my() declared variables WAS( Re: -e $filename...)

2002-04-13 Thread drieux
On Saturday, April 13, 2002, at 04:45 , Ahmed Moustafa wrote: > Elaine -Hfb- Ashton wrote: >> I always found the local, my, our mess pretty confusing and the best >> explanation is MJD's "Coping with Scoping" >> http://perl.plover.com/FAQs/Namespaces.html >> Make good note of the text in red :)

Re: (-e $filename) gives Use of uninitialized value at...

2002-04-13 Thread Ahmed Moustafa
Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan wrote: > The default scope for ALL variables is to the package they belong to. If > you declare a variable with 'my', or give it a fully qualified package > name (like $Foo::x), then the default is not the case. I found the same for subroutines, right? -- Ahmed Moustafa http

How can a sub return true or value?

2002-04-13 Thread Ahmed Moustafa
I use " " for true and "" for false. Is there a more standard (or readable) values for true and false? Thanks in advance. -- Ahmed Moustafa http://pobox.com/~amoustafa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can a sub return true or false?

2002-04-13 Thread Ahmed Moustafa
Ahmed Moustafa wrote: > I use " " for true and "" for false. Is there a more standard (or > readable) values for true and false? > > Thanks in advance. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can a sub return true or value?

2002-04-13 Thread Steven Brooks
On Sunday 14 April 2002 00:40, you wrote: > I use " " for true and "" for false. Is there a more standard (or > readable) values for true and false? > > Thanks in advance. You could use 0 as false and 1 (or another non-zero value) as true. Steven -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How can a sub return true or value?

2002-04-13 Thread Brian Smith
- Original Message - From: "Ahmed Moustafa" To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 2:40 AM Subject: How can a sub return true or value? > I use " " for true and "" for false. Is there a more standard (or > readable) values for true and false? > > Thanks in advance. > Typi