Re: AW: AW: threads - Error

[Elizabeth Mattijsen]

At 12:46 +0100 1/13/03, Teifke Sascha ZFF wrote:

Here is the Output of Perl -V
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Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 6 subversion 1) configuration:

Ah... I don't think ithreads were really supported in 5.6.1, maybe on Windows, but that's out of my league really. My experience is only with Perl ithreads in 5.8.0,. specifically on Linux.

 > Hmmm... looks to me that you're looking at an old perldoc, pre 5.8.0.
 > Which version of Perl are you using anyway.
	Yes, I am running 5.6.1 and I looked at the corresponding
Documentation.

I would recommend getting 5.8.0 from Activestate.

 > Are you trying to do reverse DNS lookups?
	The Final program will do a Ping on a Hostname and if the host is up
I
	will write to the Messanger Mailslot.
	Doing this serial to > 200 hosts may take up to 20 minutes if a lot
of
	hosts is down ( they're Workstations, so it is normal that some of
them
	are down ). So I try to do it with threads.

Good application, indeed. But doing this on a Windows box with 5.6.1 would indicate potential trouble for me. Unless you're just talking about a few hundred hosts to ping.


Liz