Re: alarm and reading from file decriptor

I can't duplicate the error; this works as expected in 5.8.8. I do get a subsequent "sh: Broken pipe" error message in the interupted version, probably because the alarm does not close the file handle.

Dum Spiro Spero

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Re^2: alarm and reading from file decriptor by tomtastic (Initiate) on May 06, 2015 at 15:31 UTC
Seems like it could be a bug with PERL v5.8.4 then, I wonder if there's a workaround...	[reply]
Re^3: alarm and reading from file decriptor by GotToBTru (Prior) on May 06, 2015 at 15:42 UTC
Explictly close the file handle in the alarm? Dum Spiro Spero	[reply]
Re^4: alarm and reading from file decriptor by tomtastic (Initiate) on May 07, 2015 at 08:31 UTC
If I close FD1 in the anonymous sub for the alarm, I get "Bad file number".	[reply]