Re: forks.pm segfault

[flexvault]

panos80,

Do you have any idea what might be wrong?

I just checked every distribution I have from 5.8 to 5.16 on a Debian Linux box and I don't have a 'forks.pm'. So unless this is new for a release after 5.16, I think you just have to specify 'fork'. (Notice I didn't say 'use fork'.)

UPDATE: Well I just installed 'forks' from CPAN, so my comments are all wrong!

Regards...Ed

[panos80]

So the system with the problem is a server to which I don't have root access. Which unfortunately means that I can't re-install Perl :( But I'll talk again with the admin and see if he can find a time window at which he can re-install Perl (quite a few other people are using this server).




Also, while I could agree that the script's code isn't good enough, or that I should use threads instead of forks, the thing is that this same script runs fine on another machine!




Many thanks for the help guys! Really appreciated!