>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: Calling subroutine every second using alarm fails
>> From: Kelly Jones <kelly.terry.jo...@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, April 01, 2009 5:48 am
>> To: beginners@perl.org
>>
>>
>> I want a script that constantly accepts user input, but runs a
>> subroutine every second to do other work.
>
>
> what I thought is to fork a child to do the stuff.
>
> my $child = fork;
> die "cant fork $!" unless defined $child;
>
> if ($child) { # in parent
> while(<>) {
> # do something
> }
> } else { # in child
> while( some_condition ) {
> # do stuff
> sleep 1;
> }
> exit 0;
> }
>
>
> regards,
> Jeff.
I'm trying to avoid fork() because, in the real app, I want my signal
handler to share/change variables within the main program. Any way to
do it using signals? Alarm seems like the perfect solution w/ the
minor problem that it doesn't actually seem to work.
I realize I could use fork() and then do IPC for variable sharing, but
yuck!
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