On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:32:17AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 10:57:39AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > How about testing on 127.0.0.1? > > > > As insane as it sounds, it might not be there. There might be no IP > > system at all. Consider DOS. > > I was thinking after testing for IP connection.
Can you differenciate between Perl's IP socket system being broken and the OS's IP system being broken/non-existent? -- Michael G. Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.pobox.com/~schwern/ Perl6 Quality Assurance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kwalitee Is Job One Plus I remember being impressed with Ada because you could write an infinite loop without a faked up condition. The idea being that in Ada the typical infinite loop would be normally be terminated by detonation. -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
