Re^2: alarm and reading from file decriptor

good spot with the '||', but the problem remains... :(

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Re^3: alarm and reading from file decriptor by tomtastic (Initiate) on May 07, 2015 at 14:16 UTC
For the benefit of future students with this problem, I have discovered the answer myself. It seems $/ was getting clobbered by the alarm somehow? If $/ is saved aside somewhere and restored before each new read, everything is fine again.	[reply]