in reply to A continually running process

Erm, sleep shouldn't delay anything that occurs before it. More sounds like you're suffering from buffering.

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Re^2: A continually running process
by monarch (Priest) on Jun 25, 2008 at 21:09 UTC
    Specifically, have you turned on autoflush?
    $|=1;
while ( 1 ) {
  print "hello";
  sleep( 120 );
}

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    Lastly may I say how impressed I am that you are somehow getting rsync running from a Win32 platform!

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      It was quite a challenge! If you're looking to do it yourself, try Deltacopy, this is what I used. It does a minimal cygwin install on the windows platform--just enough to allow you to run rsync, ssh, and chmod as if you were on a regular linux OS.
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