Re: perl dying without a trace

I can't reproduce this with just the code you provide:

#!perl
$rc = syswrite $socket, pack("N",$self->{'length'}+length($SP_MAGIC)),
+ 4; 
print "Ok";
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prints: "Ok"

I'm not disregarding the possibility of some bug in perl, but it's likely that the bug originates somewhere else. First up, what's in $self->{length}, $socket and $SP_MAGIC?

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Re^2: perl dying without a trace by Crackers2 (Parson) on Oct 24, 2006 at 22:58 UTC
Yes I know that won't cause it :) `$self->{length}` is 417, `$socket` is `bless( \*Symbol::GEN0, 'IO::Socket::INET' );` according to Data::Dumper, and `$SP_MAGIC` is a 4-char alfanumeric string.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: perl dying without a trace by Joost (Canon) on Oct 25, 2006 at 00:00 UTC
alright, so does replacing that line with `$rc = syswrite $socket, pack("N",431), 4;` [download] still produce the error? if it does that would indicate a bug in whatever produced the $socket. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: perl dying without a trace by Crackers2 (Parson) on Oct 25, 2006 at 00:05 UTC
No it doesn't, since if I replace the line with that I get protocol errors all over the place and never run long enough to run into the error :) See my response to diotalevi for what turned out the be the problem, the newbie-ish mistake of not handling SIGPIPE properly.	[reply]