At 10:30 AM 8/30/02 +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > > Being able to do so at any point in Perl's execution would be > great. Or is > > there such a thing already and I just don't know about it (and I'm not > > thinking about GTop)... >I was thinking about highjacking a standard function: read () > >read filehandle, $var, length [, offset] > >and use it like > >read [ \"PERL_status" ], $mem, "memory"; > >which is very illegal at the moment :) but probably easy to catch in the >internals and than we've got a new gate to a welth of internal info :)
What kinds of internal info are you thinking about? Liz