[mv] Problem with Socket.pm in FreeBSD!

[Hans-Joachim Leidinger <jojo@buchonline.net>]

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Mike Heins schrieb:
> I wasn't too angry. I don't like man pages quoted at me when I obviously
> know at least something of what I am talking about.

Sorry! As an old windows user... _I_ hate the man pages! Maybe i'm a
redneck or a cow to use the man page well/right or my brain is located
at my right mouse finger and not in my head. :-(
 
> The problem is well-known by the Perl porters, and there is no easy
> solution. The thing is, that if you have interruptible system calls
> that don't do rewinds, like BSD does, you cannot use signals at all
> and expect reliability. (Some say signals are just plain not reliable
> in Perl and you shouldn't use them at all. In fact, every few months I
> get a segfault on a Linux-based or Solaris-based system due to the same
> cause. But it is very, very, rare, and I find it acceptable.)

OK! 
 
> As I said, and now I am repeating myself; I am not knocking BSD.  It is a

Believe me! I understand you right! We are not a child or in a
kindergarten, to do or to fight such kind of discussions as commodore
vs. atari, WIN vs. Apple, Linux vs. FreeBSD and a lot of such stuff.
We want to get Minivend perfectly and Minivend _is_ perfect, because YOU
make this perfect. 
Back to the salt mines...

> fine operating system by all accounts. I am sure many of the I/O decisions
> they have made have something to do with its speed and reliablity. It just
> doesn't work as well with Perl as some others do. I believe part of this
> is because Perl people got frustrated with some of the BSD maintainers
> and their past disrespect for script- or Perl-based software. This has
> changed considerably in the last couple of years, and I have not seen
> the same level of problem as before. But I do frequently see problems
> with BSD that never come up on other OSes, and I believe that is why.

_I_ will do the investigation to solve this. But as a newbie in perl,
this is a problem. Is in this list any BSD user and perl guru? Who are
you? I'm very wondering, because business _is_ business and nobody of
the BSD user _and_ perl guru can acceptable this misbehavior of the Perl
Socket.pm.

Mike, 

if i get an connection to any perl guru of the BSD user and/or the
maintainers and he ask me somethings about the problem, what should i do
or to tell them? You know, i'm new in perl.

Regards,

	Joachim

BTW: 
I've tell the FreeBSD news group about the trouble with Socket.pm and
i've ask this group for his experience and solutions with Socket.pm.

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-------------Hans-Joachim Leidinger---------------------


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