At 1:30 PM -0700 7/31/03, Michael G Schwern wrote: >On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 09:15:47AM -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote: >> Obviously there's no way we can or should resolve this in a way that >> will satisfy everybody. With the exception of twiddling the >> non-blocking bit on a socket, Net::Ping works fine on VMS if you have >> an echo service running. If you don't it won't, and it's your >> choice. Yes, this should be documented somewhere. Patches welcome. > >Is this Net::Ping in general or just the tests?
It's anything that calls the socket_blocking_mode function in Ping.pm, and that includes tcp_connect. I'm not familiar enough with the whole range of what Net::Ping does to know what quadrant of its capabilities are absent on VMS. At least some tests pass, so I assume there is some working functionality. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
