First off, I'm a newbie. I started learning the language a week ago. My problem might start there. Here's the situation: I've got a 470 (with documentation) line script that works absolutely flawlessly. No problems at all. The problems occur when I wrap the subroutine calls in a loop to repeat the script every x seconds until I kill the thread. As soon as I do this, the FileHandle that I throw my output at can no longer handle as much information and just stops listening. The information thrown at it just flies off into nothingness. Here's what the subroutine call section looks like: 
$TIMER = 10;
while (TRUE) {
&initialScreenOut;
&beginFileIO;
&htmlHeader;
&timeStamp;
&legend;
my @PORTS = ("24","26","26","26");
my @BASE = ("0x0000F6AE2D41","0x0000F6BC4401","0x0000F6BC3B41","0x0000
+F6BC5C01");
&makeTable ( "134.200.212.109","DeskStream1", 4, 26, \@BASE, \@PORTS);
my @PORTS2 = ("24","24","26");
my @BASE2 = ("0x0000F6D83301","0x0000F6E2E901","0x0000F64C09C1");
&makeTable ( "134.200.212.190","DeskStream2", 3, 26, \@BASE2, \@PORTS2
+);
my @PORTS3 = ("26","24","24");
my @BASE3 = ("0x0000F64C2701","0x0000F64C2281","0x0000F64C3981");
&makeTable ( "134.200.212.189","DeskStream3", 3, 26, \@BASE3, \@PORTS3
+);
&htmlFooter;
&finalScreenOut;
sleep($TIMER);
}

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When I comment out the first two lines of this code and the last two lines of this code (effectively, all of the code that handles the looping), the script works fine. When I leave them in, I get the apparent buffer overflow problems with the FileHandle. Anybody have any idea what's going on?

In reply to Buffer overflow by mikeo

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