Hi Dan !
Answer to your questions:
>>What's a control-T show?
PERL> perl garbage.pl
SEB100::_FTA101: 15:16:03 PERL CPU=00:05:21.89 PF=393184
IO=183987 MEM=69
SEB100::_FTA101: 15:16:05 PERL CPU=00:05:23.50 PF=393207
IO=183988 MEM=41
>>What's a SHOW PROCESS/CONT/ID=<the running process> show?
State COM Working set 41
Cur/base priority 4/4 Virtual pages 2634
Current PC 8007CD70 CPU time 0 00:06:06.84
Current PSL 00000003 Direct I/O 61474
Current user SP 7ED17790 Buffered I/O 122547
PID 2B802E51 Page faults 393419
UIC [S95697] Event flags E33D00A6
DE000001
$1$DKA104:[PERL5_005_03.][000000]PERL.EXE;1
>>What's a SHOW SYM PE* show?
PERL> show sym pe*
PERL == "$PERL_ROOT:[000000]PERL"
PERLBUG == "$PERL_ROOT:[000000]PERL PERL_ROOT:[LIB]PERLBUG.COM"
PERLDOC == "$PERL_ROOT:[000000]PERL PERL_ROOT:[LIB.POD]PERLDOC.COM
-T"
PERL> show log perl_root
"PERL_ROOT" = "DISK104:[PERL5_005_03.]" (LNM$PROCESS_TABLE)
PERL>
>>Does a PERL "-V" get you anything?
Same thing. Perl -V also hangs.
Regards
Anders Wallin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Sugalski [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 3:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Perl hangs on OpenVMS
>
> At 09:53 AM 6/30/00 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > SUMMARY:
> > > The distribution worked beautifully for several months
> > > but then someone did something with this node that caused
> > > Perl to "hang".
> > >
> > > For example the following example will only eat CPU and
> > > do nothing:
> > >
> > > $ PERL garbage.pl
>
> What's a control-T show? What's a SHOW PROCESS/CONT/ID=<the running
> process> show? What's a SHOW SYM PE* show? Does a PERL "-V" get you
> anything?
>
> Dan
>
> --------------------------------------"it's like this"-------------------
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> teddy bears get drunk
