Please write a small sample of code that you think should work yet doesn't. If the situation is as you describe, then I'll wind up suggesting that you use the perlbug utility to report a bug in Perl.

However I strongly suspect that you're missing something, and select works as it is documented. Perhaps select is called again, perhaps the messages you're complaining about come on STDERR thanks to warnings, perhaps a million things.

But the vanishingly unlikely scenario is that you're encountering a bug in Perl. I don't mean to suggest that you're lying - we've all had the experience of being sure that Perl has a bug because we don't see how what we are seeing is possible otherwise. But, even still, this experience is almost always followed by a, "D'oh!"

In reply to Re^3: Make select apply to modules as well by tilly
in thread Make select apply to modules as well by richz

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