Re: Timeout Problems with Parallel::UserAgent

Gisle Aas (gisle@aas.no)
20 Jun 1999 01:07:23 +0200


Marc Langheinrich <marclang@cs.washington.edu> writes:

> Why _I_ don't just use exactly this in Parallel::UserAgent? Dunno -- I
> basically followed Gisles lead when he removed all the alarms in some LWP
> version a while ago. Maybe it'd be better using $SIG{ALRM} instead of
> relying on select()?

The reasons why I wanted to avoid $SIG{ALRM} was simply that perl
can't reliably handle signals yet.

Regards,
Gisle