Sounds like a good job for Perl threads, a fork, or maybe a seperate process.
Stable threads are only available in 5.8, and would probably be the best way to go about it. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/04/threads.html Forking would be messy I would think. A seperate process might be ok, but you would probably need to use something like a memory sharing module or database to share data between processes. I have little to no experience with most of that stuff, so I can't offer anything other than these ideas. Rob -----Original Message----- From: dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 9:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Timers? I'm writing IRC services in perl (some say it's a bad idea, others good, I personally don't care what the language is, it has a fast response time and does what I want it to do), however I need to have a sub to check bans every second, to see if it should time them out and remove them. I have the time to expire it in unix timestamp seconds: $akill{$host}->{expires} I need to make a sub to run through all the %akill keys one by one every second to check if it should time them out. However I need it so the timer doesn't interfere with the rest of the code, i.e responding to users on the network normally as if the timer isn't even working. Any clues? Dan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
