Re: Checking for infinite loops

2007-01-11 Thread Jay Savage
On 1/11/07, hOURS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jay Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/11/07, hOURS wrote: > > > Jay Savage wrote: On 1/11/07, hOURS wrote: > [snip] > Thanks Jay. I can't believe I didn't think of that myself. I put in the 1;'s and the "or die". It's not that the requi

Re: Checking for infinite loops

2007-01-11 Thread hOURS
Jay Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/11/07, hOURS wrote: > > > Jay Savage wrote: On 1/11/07, hOURS wrote: > [snip] > Thanks Jay. I can't believe I didn't think of that myself. I put in the > 1;'s and the "or die". It's not that the requires are failing - I get the > same results.

Re: Checking for infinite loops

2007-01-11 Thread Jay Savage
On 1/11/07, hOURS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jay Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/11/07, hOURS wrote: [snip] Thanks Jay. I can't believe I didn't think of that myself. I put in the 1;'s and the "or die". It's not that the requires are failing - I get the same results. I adde

Re: Checking for infinite loops

2007-01-11 Thread hOURS
Jay Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/11/07, hOURS wrote: [snip] > Some modifications I made: I changed the names of the programs being tested > to fit what I had. I reduced the alarm time from one hour down to a few > seconds. I included statements to print out error messages. (The

Re: Checking for infinite loops

2007-01-11 Thread Jay Savage
On 1/11/07, hOURS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] Some modifications I made: I changed the names of the programs being tested to fit what I had. I reduced the alarm time from one hour down to a few seconds. I included statements to print out error messages. (The original if and

Re: Checking for infinite loops

2007-01-11 Thread hOURS
Dave Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/8/07, hOURS wrote: > Hi everyone, > Jay offered me the following code to help with something. I don't undertand > it, but tried to use it anyway to see if it would work. The computer told me > there was a syntax error in the area I highlighted in

Re: Checking for infinite loops

2007-01-09 Thread Dave Gray
On 1/8/07, hOURS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone, Jay offered me the following code to help with something. I don't undertand it, but tried to use it anyway to see if it would work. The computer told me there was a syntax error in the area I highlighted in color. I can't find it

Re: Checking for infinite loops

2007-01-09 Thread hOURS
Thanks. I did change the longRunningModule part. The syntax error was in the line: if ($@) { apparently at the end of the line, which I believe usually means opening brackets without closing brackets or vice versa. Fred Jay Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/8/07, hOURS wrote: >

Re: Checking for infinite loops

2007-01-08 Thread Jay Savage
On 1/8/07, hOURS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi everyone, Jay offered me the following code to help with something. I don't undertand it, but tried to use it anyway to see if it would work. The computer told me there was a syntax error in the area I highlighted in color. I can't find it

Re: Checking for infinite loops

2007-01-08 Thread hOURS
Hi everyone, Jay offered me the following code to help with something. I don't undertand it, but tried to use it anyway to see if it would work. The computer told me there was a syntax error in the area I highlighted in color. I can't find it - maybe that's because I don't understand th

Re: Checking for infinite loops

2006-12-07 Thread Jay Savage
On 12/7/06, hOURS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for trying, but this right here is the heart of the matter. I'd be using alarm to time a certain thing. It seems to me, any explanation of how to do that, be it plain English or sample code has to incorporate that thing.

Re: Re: Checking for infinite loops

2006-12-07 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 12/6/06, hOURS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My program in a nutshell goes: Blah blah blah the beginning part require someprogramthatmayhaveaninfiniteloop.pl Blah blah blah the ending part You must have a good reason for using a buggy library without first fixing its b

Re: Checking for infinite loops

2006-12-07 Thread D. Bolliger
hOURS am Donnerstag, 7. Dezember 2006 06:51: > Thanks for trying, but this right here is the heart of the matter. > I’d be using alarm to time a certain thing. It seems to me, any > explanation of how to do that, be it plain English or sample code has to > incorporate that thing. My progr

Re: Checking for infinite loops

2006-12-07 Thread Mumia W.
On 12/06/2006 11:51 PM, hOURS wrote: Thanks for trying, but this right here is the heart of the matter. I'd be using alarm to time a certain thing. It seems to me, any explanation of how to do that, be it plain English or sample code has to incorporate that thing. My

Re: Checking for infinite loops

2006-12-06 Thread hOURS
Thanks for trying, but this right here is the heart of the matter. I’d be using alarm to time a certain thing. It seems to me, any explanation of how to do that, be it plain English or sample code has to incorporate that thing. My program in a nutshell goes: Blah bla

Re: Checking for infinite loops

2006-12-03 Thread Bill Jones
On 12/2/06, hOURS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But I think we can ignore all those questions, because I don't see a need to work with this example. I'm just looking for someone to tell me how alarm works. A few sentences in English will be fine. No code really need be written. Old multi pro

Re: Checking for infinite loops

2006-12-03 Thread D. Bolliger
hOURS am Sonntag, 3. Dezember 2006 03:25: > "D. Bolliger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hOURS am Donnerstag, 30. November 2006 21:09: > > Jen Spinney wrote: On 11/20/06, hOURS wrote: > > > Recently I posed a question on here regarding a program I have that > > > runs other programs (through requ

Re: Checking for infinite loops

2006-12-02 Thread hOURS
Thanks, I suppose I understand that code example from 'perldoc -f alarm' a little better. But much of it remains mysterious. e.g. the very first thing within eval. The only brackets I've ever seen with variables are [] for list elements. What's going on with {}? And what a strange thing to

Re: Checking for infinite loops

2006-11-30 Thread D. Bolliger
hOURS am Donnerstag, 30. November 2006 21:09: > Jen Spinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/20/06, hOURS wrote: > > Recently I posed a question on here regarding a program I have that > > runs other programs (through require statements and what not). My > > problem was that the programs getti

Re: Checking for infinite loops

2006-11-30 Thread hOURS
Jen Spinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/20/06, hOURS wrote: > Recently I posed a question on here regarding a program I have that runs > other programs (through require statements and what not). My problem was > that the programs getting run might have syntax errors and I wanted to ski