Re: what's the apache mod_perl speedup factor?

2000-03-31 Thread Tom Christiansen
tom, my direct reply to you bounced, but this should probably be on the list anyhow... - Transcript of session follows - ... while talking to mail.perl.com.: MAIL From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 550 Your site is blacklisted as a spam haven. 554 [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Service unavailable Hm...

Re: what's the apache mod_perl speedup factor?

2000-03-31 Thread Tom Christiansen
IO provides a needed, though costly, OO interface to most system calls. Huh? No, it doesn't. --tom

Re: what's the apache mod_perl speedup factor?

2000-03-31 Thread Tom Christiansen
Huh? No, it doesn't. I stand corrected. OO interface to _many_ _I/O_ system calls. Better, or do you object to the "needed" part? Rather. It's nearly completely gratuitous. --tom

Re: what's the apache mod_perl speedup factor?

2000-03-31 Thread Tom Christiansen
Let me be more descriptive. IO.xs has some useful features. Most of the IO::*.pm modules do not, especially Handle and File. Here's all you need from the low-level IO.xs stuff, the things that aren't in straight Perl (although some can be done, but less conveniently): require IO::Handle;

Re: [admin] NO HTML posts please!

2000-03-30 Thread Tom Christiansen
how about avoiding the me toos... [44 lines of crud we've already seen before] Hm... something wrong's with that message... % msgchk `mhpath cur` Quote follows response, Jeopardy style #2 Overquoted: 30 lines quoted out of 41: 73% Non-canonical signature separator:

Re: [PATCH 5.6.0] local $SIG{FOO} restoration

2000-03-30 Thread Tom Christiansen
i suppose the handler should not be restored if it was Perl's, something along the lines of (on top of take2 patch): Exactly! this kind of thing is common in programs that do sigmasks or tty mode masks. The typical mistake is set noecho do something unset noecho or block

Re: STDIN reads everything as one line

1999-11-26 Thread Tom Christiansen
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 22:33:55 -0800 "John S. Evans" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: "Eric L. Brine" [EMAIL PROTECTED] A few days ago, someone mentioned doing $scalar = STDIN read the whole POSTed data. I was the guy :) Strange, because the "Writing Apache

Re: Another IE5 complaint

1999-11-23 Thread Tom Christiansen
Are you going to complain about all the 404 errors in your log, or are you going to use a simple RewriteRule to give people the information they are seeking? Well, in the Microsoft case, I'd probably dynamically rewrite the link to file:///dev/mouse or file:///dev/zero, if that made any sense to

Seeking volunteer to providing mailing list summaries

1999-11-10 Thread Tom Christiansen
Is there anyone on this mailing list who would be willing to volunteer to provide the world with a periodic summary of what major topics were discussed on this mailing list? The idea is to follow in the footsteps of Mark-Jason Dominus's excellent p5p weekly summaries at

Re: using function prototypes w/ mod_perl and Apache::Registry

1999-01-16 Thread Tom Christiansen
I don't suppose that suggesting that context coercion templates might not really be all they're cracked up to be is apt to get your very far? :-) Tried that. They are newly converted C programmers, and are unwilling to give them up. Ah, *that* old problem again. Tell them "Perl doesn't

Re: using function prototypes w/ mod_perl and Apache::Registry

1999-01-16 Thread Tom Christiansen
Tried that. They are newly converted C programmers, and are unwilling to give them up. There are scary things in here about prototypes as well. --tom --- Forwarded Message From: Tom Christiansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Conditionally use modules (use constant) Cc