She's not re-opening STDOUT as an "in memory" file, she's opening it as a regular file handle. This doesn't apply.
I doubt very much that opening STDOUT to a file is the cause of the script not terminating. I suspect that either there is an infinite loop, or there's just a lot of data to process and the original poster isn't allowing enough time for the script to finish. Ronald > -----Original Message----- > From: Hardy Merrill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 3:06 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Why won't my script terminate? > > I just found this in 'perldoc -f open': > > Though if you try to re-open "STDOUT" or "STDERR" as an "in > memory" file, you have to close it first: > > close STDOUT; > open STDOUT, '>', \$variable or die "Can't open STDOUT: $!"; > > So try closing STDOUT first before opening it for append. > > HTH. > > Hardy Merrill > > >>> Laurie Vien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/24/04 02:44PM >>> > I am running a very simple Perl script using DBI (skeleton of it > follows). > It does everything I expect it to, but the problem is it doesn't > finish > until I Ctrl-C, at which time I get the message "Terminating on signal > SIGINT(2)". What have I left out or done in the wrong order that > causes it > not to terminate?: > > #MyPerlScript.pl > use DBI; > use Date::Manip; > > $dbh = DBI->connect($DB_CONN, $DB_USER, $DB_PASS) || die "Can't > connect: > $dbi::errstr"; > open(STDOUT, ">>myfile.txt") or die "\nCould not open STDOUT: $!"; > > $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM MyTable"); > $sth->execute(); > > # < Do bunches of stuff here ....> > # > # > > $sth->finish(); > $dbh->disconnect(); > close(STDOUT); > > Laurie >
