Re^5: DBI messes up sleep

Since other users where able to reproduce it and provide work around its sounded good. At least it should be addressed as a comment in the documentation so that if someone else has the same problem they will be able to find a solution sooner. Either way I don't think submitting it as a bug is hasty because the maintaners may have no idea of the issue and might not read PM, if that is the case then some kind of notification to them would be good.

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Eric Hodges

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Re^6: DBI messes up sleep by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 17, 2007 at 19:37 UTC
I didn't (even try to) reproduce it, and what I posted isn't a workaround. `sleep` should always be called in a loop to either handle or ignore signals.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^7: DBI messes up sleep by eric256 (Parson) on Sep 17, 2007 at 20:09 UTC
Hmm, just read http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/sleep.html and while it doesn't say excatly that, it does say that sleep doesn't neccessarily sleep the full length. It is certainly counter intuitive to me at least, if sleep for 30 i expect it to sleep for 30 seconds, guess i better change my expectations. ___________ Eric Hodges	[reply]
Re^8: DBI messes up sleep by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 17, 2007 at 21:06 UTC
"May be interrupted if the process receives a signal". Perhaps you could avoid the loop if you knew more (possibly system-specific) details. I'm working from that line and reports here on Perl Monks of signals interrupting `sleep`.	[reply] [d/l]