At 05:39 PM 1/26/2007 -0800, Jan Dubois wrote: >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.
I take it that's a kernel limitation. Any word on sigalarm functionality in Vista? -- REMEMBER THE WORLD TRADE CENTER ---=< WTC 911 >=-- "...ne cede malis" 00000100 _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
