Re: intermittent problem with IPC::Open3

particle, does NT 4 support perl's IPC modules properly?

I know that Win32 doesn't support the fork() call properly, and that it's POSIX implementation is not very good, so it may have something to do with that. I would check out mailing lists and newsgroups to see if others have reported similar behaviour. To check and see if it is your code, or an OS error.

Sorry I can't be of more help, but I have never been able to get NT 4 on my machine, so I have no ability to test that module.

--xPhase

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Re: Re: intermittent problem with IPC::Open3 by particle (Vicar) on Jul 12, 2001 at 02:03 UTC
well, i'm running ActiveState's Perl 5.6.0, which fakes fork(), by creating a new thread. the IPC modules are bundled with the distribution, so i assume they are blessed by the vendor. i've put in a call to them, but it's never enough to look in one place.... thanks for the response. i suppose i could ask more generally, what would cause IO::Pipe to complain about unavailable resources? oh, BTW, WinNT is my client's OS. ~Particle	[reply]

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Re: Re: intermittent problem with IPC::Open3
by particle (Vicar) on Jul 12, 2001 at 02:03 UTC

i suppose i could ask more generally, what would cause IO::Pipe to complain about unavailable resources?

oh, BTW, WinNT is my client's OS.

~Particle

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