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



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