On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:29:38 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Wagner) wrote:
>At 11:54 AM 1/27/2007 +1100, Sisyphus wrote: >>The alarm() function now works on Windows: > >Yes but I believe it doesn't work in all circumstances. I don't remember >seeing anything about Windows having an all working alarm function. It doesn't. It will not interrupt a blocking system call. For example you cannot use alarm() to get a timeout for reading a socket, or reading from a pipe etc. Cheers, -Jan _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
