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in thread poll ideas quest

Shutdown. You can confuse it with reboot (both are syscalls, but reboot is not a perl function, as it is highly system-dependent).

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Re^3: poll ideas quest
by sgt (Deacon) on Dec 22, 2006 at 08:53 UTC

    but that's the fault of the socket API isn't? but yes poorly chosen "verbs" should have at least decent aliases...like carp -> shout ;)