in reply to Re: Dormus interruptus
in thread Dormus interruptus

Thank you. I did not think of this, and it does exactly what I wanted, which is to interrupt the sleep calls.

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Re^3: Dormus interruptus
by tachyon (Chancellor) on Jun 26, 2004 at 12:22 UTC

    Usual caveats about signals not being safe but if you use INT you can also catch ^C automaticlly to do a neat cleanup & exit. As an aside I also use a strategy like:

    $dbh = DBI->connect( .... ); END{ $dbh->disconnect if $dbh }

    to ensure clean database disconnects, having exhaused the available supply of connections in the past.

    cheers

    tachyon