Re: Perl compiler?

2004-03-21 Thread Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj
On Mar 20, 2004, at 20:33, Chris Devers wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj wrote: Is there such an animal? And is it GNU-ed? Aside from /usr/bin/perl (or C:\perl\perl.exe)? There is (was? is, I suppose...) that could produce Windows .exe files out of win32 Perl scripts, but

Re: Perl compiler?

2004-03-21 Thread Steven Bach
On Mar 21, 2004, at 10:16 AM, Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj wrote: On Mar 20, 2004, at 20:33, Chris Devers wrote: On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Bohdan Peter Rekshynskyj wrote: Is there such an animal? And is it GNU-ed? Aside from /usr/bin/perl (or C:\perl\perl.exe)? There is (was? is, I suppose...) that

Re: Trying to understand signals and restartable system calls

2004-03-21 Thread drieux
On Mar 21, 2004, at 8:55 AM, Mark Alldritt wrote: [..] I take if from your responses that Perl doesn't automatically restart system calls after a signal is processed as Programming Perl and the Perl Cookbook suggest it does. I don't actually own the code that is doing the read, so its not easy

B/C - Re: Trying to understand signals and restartable system calls

2004-03-21 Thread drieux
On Mar 19, 2004, at 1:31 PM, Joel wrote: I'll toss in my two cents here, since I've done something like this before in a production-type environment. IMHO, The best thing to do would be to have your signal handler set a flag (in the manner described by drieux) and have your loop react to that