thread & ping

2004-06-01 Thread Eckart Uhlig
Hi all, I have to measure the ping reply time for several ip addresses. The problem is, I don't want to wait for the reply of the ping to ip1 and send then the ping to ip2. Both pings should go out almost in parallel on the line. Furthermore ip1 & ip2 should be pinged more than one time e.g. 5 time

subroutine name

2003-12-19 Thread Eckart Uhlig
Hi all, is there a way to determine the name of the current called subroutine? I don't want to print out the subroutine's name explicitly, I'm hoping for a 'magic' variable/ function or something like that, which I can pass to a plain printout function. In the perlvars manpage I haven't found anyth