Re: exhausting file handles in Win32

2006-04-19 Thread Carlos Barbet
Indeed! This seems to get the job done and it provides an excellent spring board for diving into the Win32API module. Thanks Billy! lol. Now, I'll be reading perldocs and the like instead of testing software ;) Kindest regards, Carlos Billy Conn wrote: I'd try the following: #!/usr/bin/p

Re: exhausting file handles in Win32

2006-04-18 Thread Carlos Barbet
pile their perl interpreter :) Is it fair to say that ActivePerl is preventing the end user from doing something horrible to their system and not a limitation in perl itself? At least that is what I am now understanding. Regards, Carlos Jan Dubois wrote: On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Carlos Barbet

Re: exhausting file handles in Win32

2006-04-18 Thread Carlos Barbet
OK, I thought perhaps using the FileHandle module would help, I rewrote the script in the fashion below. And it remains limited to 3197 using the Cygwin shell or 2045 using cmd.exe. I _assume_ the issue is something to do with perl being an interpreted language and an environment variable?? I