On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 12:51:57PM -0800, Andrew Ryan wrote:
> Hmm, I though 0.99.2 had the non-blocking alert code?
>
> Can you give more details on the 'fake' program, what it does, and do you
> know where in the 'fake' program the hanging is occuring?
>
>
> At 04:16 PM 10/29/01 -0500, Carlos Ordonez wrote:
> >I am running mon-0.99.2 and I am trying to run this command from an alert:
> >system("fake 192.168.2.10 &")
> >and mon hangs. fake starts correctly but the alert command hangs, so
> >nothing works after that. Before this I was running mon-0.38.16 and it was
> >working fine. Has anyone experience the same problem?
Hmm, I'm going to speak on this despite not being any kind of expert.
Let me know if I'm wrong.
Putting an ampersand after the shell command makes the command return to
the shell, not the shell return to perl. See the difference? Essentially
this makes the shell ready for more input/commands, but does not make
the shell command exit and return an exit code to perl.
Why that ever worked I don't know, my logic dictates that it never
should have.
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