On 25-Nov-2009, Mark Hindley wrote: > Could you run these perl one-liners from a console and check my > expected results.
I'm running these on the same machine where I'm experiencing this bug
(a PowerPC64 box running Debian Squeeze).
> perl -e'alarm 1;printf "Num: %d\tTime left: %f\n", select undef, undef,
> undef, 3.0'
> Expect: Alarm clock
$ perl -e'alarm 1;printf "Num: %d\tTime left: %f\n", select undef, undef,
undef, 3.0'
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'alarm 5;printf "Num: %d\tTime left: %f\n", select undef, undef,
undef, 3.0'
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
$ perl -e'$SIG{ALRM}=sub {};alarm 1;printf "Num: %d\tTime left: %f\n", select
undef, undef, undef, 3.0'
Num: -1 Time left: 1.999990
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