Re: Inotify2 + AnyEvent

Just a guess from knowing how finicky calling subs by reference sometimes can be. Instead of

$watchObject = $inotify->watch (
  "/var/log/snmptrapd.log", IN_MODIFY, \&processTrap);
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try

$watchObject = $inotify->watch (
  "/var/log/snmptrapd.log", IN_MODIFY,  &processTrap()  );
or
  "/var/log/snmptrapd.log", IN_MODIFY,  processTrap()  );
or
  "/var/log/snmptrapd.log", IN_MODIFY,  sub{ processTrap() }  );
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anyways, experiment around with the way you call that sub. In the Ionotify2 docs, the examples show .... sub{ } notation, and I know Tk can get very fussy about the way subs are called. One tip, if you use &, include the ().

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Re^2: Inotify2 + AnyEvent (now ne later) by tye (Sage) on Oct 04, 2011 at 17:44 UTC
I'd use `\&processTrap`. The `sub { procesTrap() }` should also work, but I don't recommend using that with Tk because I find that it can leak memory (and I don't know if Inotify2 avoids that problem). The other two things you suggested don't pass in a reference to code to be called later; they just call the code right then and then pass in whatever that code returns. - tye	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Inotify2 + AnyEvent (now ne later) by dlal66 (Acolyte) on Oct 04, 2011 at 19:16 UTC
Thank you gentlemen for replying. I tried the suggestions provided but they did not work. So I checked and saw that the script was working on the machine that had AnyEvent version 5.34 installed. I checked the version of AnyEvent on the machine that has the issue and saw that it was running version 7.02 of AnyEvent. So I downloaded the version 5.34 of AnyEvent and after installion, my application is running fine on the new machine. So I guess the version 7.02 introduced a bug. Thanks again for your replies.	[reply]