On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:21:30PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Thanks for the response.
Could you run these perl one-liners from a console and check my expected results. perl -e'alarm 1;printf "Num: %d\tTime left: %f\n", select undef, undef, undef, 3.0' Expect: Alarm clock perl -e'alarm 5;printf "Num: %d\tTime left: %f\n", select undef, undef, undef, 3.0' Expect: Num: 0 Time left: 0.000000 perl -e'$SIG{ALRM}=sub {};alarm 1;printf "Num: %d\tTime left: %f\n", select undef, undef, undef, 3.0' Expect: Num: -1 Time left: 2.000000 Thanks Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org