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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 05:05:10 -0700 (PDT)
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Today's topics:
Audio::Wav module <rclark@adc.metrica.co.uk>
Re: C-like #define macros in Perl (Lee)
Re: C-like #define macros in Perl (TM Lehto)
Re: C-like #define macros in Perl (Abigail)
Re: C-like #define macros in Perl <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Re: can't match $ (Abigail)
Re: can't match $ (Sitaram Chamarty)
Re: crypt returns different values since ISP upgrade. (Sitaram Chamarty)
Re: difference between my and local? (Abigail)
Re: from a pipe (Bart Lateur)
Future of Perl (Jeffrey )
Re: Future of Perl <flavell@mail.cern.ch>
Re: Future of Perl (Bart Lateur)
Re: help with line feeds <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Re: help with perl (Bart Lateur)
Re: knowing it's own name? (Abigail)
Re: knowing it's own name? (Andreas Fehr)
Re: MySQL with perl <eedalf@eed.ericsson.se>
Re: Net::SMTP problem? <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Re: Newbie needs help: Environment variables (Sitaram Chamarty)
Re: OVER 18 ONLY! 72808 <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Perl...sockets. (Len Weaver)
shmget <smallpig@csoft.net>
shmget <smallpig@csoft.net>
Re: shmget <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Re: Tom Christiansen is a perlscript himself... (Bart Lateur)
Re: Tom Christiansen is a perlscript himself... <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Variable limitations <rasmus@aen.dk>
Re: Variable limitations <rasmus@aen.dk>
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:25:13 +0100
From: "Rob Clark" <rclark@adc.metrica.co.uk>
Subject: Audio::Wav module
Message-Id: <932034309.10214.0.nnrp-13.c246a7ae@news.demon.co.uk>
Hi,
Does anyone have any experience of using the Audio::Wav module under Unix
(HP at the mo.)? I've tried just reading in an 83KB file and I get the Perl
"Out of memory!" message. I can't try this under Win32 so I don't know if
it's a platform problem or not.
Any advice very welcome
Thanks
Rob Clark
Data Modeller
ADC Telecommunications
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 02:34:17 -0500
From: rlb@intrinsix.ca (Lee)
Subject: Re: C-like #define macros in Perl
Message-Id: <B3B2F92996682E7DBD@204.112.166.88>
In article <378ca933.80071166@iitb>,
hiwi1krg@iitb.fhg.de (TM Lehto) wrote:
>I am trying to write a Perl script that can print messages in several
>languages. I have put all text strings to separate file (lang.pl). The
>text strings have parts that change in run-time. When I try to print
>them from my script, the variable part of the string either doesn't
>show at all or shows as "This is directory: $working_dir" depending of
>which combination of single and double quotes I use in every place.
>
>Can I do it without using s/// substitution (perlfaq4 says something
>about it but I don't want to use s///)?
>Can I define macros like in C language?
>
>thanks,
>Tomi
>
>--- my non-working script ---
>#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
>require 'lang.pl';
>$working_dir = 'some/directory';
>print $finmsg;
>print $engmsg;
>
>
>--- lang.pl ---
>$finmsg = "Tämä on hakemisto: $working_dir"; # in finnish
>$engmsg = "This is directory: $working_dir"; # in some other language
>
This is equivalent to:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
$finmsg = "Tämä on hakemisto: $working_dir"; # in finnish
$engmsg = "This is directory: $working_dir"; # in some other language
$working_dir = 'some/directory';
print $finmsg;
print $engmsg;
$working_dir has not been initialized when $finmsg and $engmsg are
initialized, so the value "" is being substituted for $working_dir.
The only thing you'd gain from C-like #define macros here is a segmentation
fault and core dump, probably. Why not do this:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $finmsg = 'Tämä on hakemisto:'; # or use require
my $engmsg = 'This is directory:'; # for these
my $working_dir = 'some/directory';
print "$finmsg $working_dir\n";
print "$engmsg $working_dir\n";
Lee
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:01:56 GMT
From: hiwi1krg@iitb.fhg.de (TM Lehto)
Subject: Re: C-like #define macros in Perl
Message-Id: <378d9f7e.57674801@iitb>
On 14 Jul 1999 17:08:33 GMT, "William" <bivey@teamdev.com> wrote:
>I bet this will look better:
>
>#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
>$working_dir = 'some/directory';
>require 'lang.pl';
>print $finmsg;
>print $engmsg;
>
>Now the code in lang.pl should see something worth interpolating.
The problem with this is that every variable would have to be assigned
a value before the 'require' line, and changing variable values later
would not affect the print output.
-Tomi
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Date: 15 Jul 1999 05:12:43 -0500
From: abigail@delanet.com (Abigail)
Subject: Re: C-like #define macros in Perl
Message-Id: <slrn7orcvu.c9j.abigail@alexandra.delanet.com>
Uri Guttman (uri@sysarch.com) wrote on MMCXLIV September MCMXCIII in
<URL:news:x7u2r6muhk.fsf@home.sysarch.com>:
??
?? normally i would agree that macros makes little sense in perl. i
?? probably would never use them in production code since you may not have
?? control over the cpp and it will slow things down. but i found a very
?? good use for -P in a sort benchmark system i am creating. see the thread
?? in moderated (-P is in the title) from a couple of weeks ago.
The system admin of my machine has declared that access to clp.mod is
forbidden.
Abigail
--
sub f{sprintf$_[0],$_[1],$_[2]}print f('%c%s',74,f('%c%s',117,f('%c%s',115,f(
'%c%s',116,f('%c%s',32,f('%c%s',97,f('%c%s',0x6e,f('%c%s',111,f('%c%s',116,f(
'%c%s',104,f('%c%s',0x65,f('%c%s',114,f('%c%s',32,f('%c%s',80,f('%c%s',101,f(
'%c%s',114,f('%c%s',0x6c,f('%c%s',32,f('%c%s',0x48,f('%c%s',97,f('%c%s',99,f(
'%c%s',107,f('%c%s',101,f('%c%s',114,f('%c%s',10,)))))))))))))))))))))))))
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Date: 15 Jul 1999 12:26:48 +0100
From: Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Subject: Re: C-like #define macros in Perl
Message-Id: <378dc578@newsread3.dircon.co.uk>
Abigail <abigail@delanet.com> wrote:
> Uri Guttman (uri@sysarch.com) wrote on MMCXLIV September MCMXCIII in
> <URL:news:x7u2r6muhk.fsf@home.sysarch.com>:
> ??
> ?? normally i would agree that macros makes little sense in perl. i
> ?? probably would never use them in production code since you may not have
> ?? control over the cpp and it will slow things down. but i found a very
> ?? good use for -P in a sort benchmark system i am creating. see the thread
> ?? in moderated (-P is in the title) from a couple of weeks ago.
>
>
> The system admin of my machine has declared that access to clp.mod is
> forbidden.
>
And the worrying thing is that Abigail *is* that admin ;-}
/J\
--
"Mark my words, sex is never enough. Sooner of later she'll want a
dishwasher" - Policeman, City Central
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Date: 15 Jul 1999 05:06:35 -0500
From: abigail@delanet.com (Abigail)
Subject: Re: can't match $
Message-Id: <slrn7orckc.c9j.abigail@alexandra.delanet.com>
Michael Graham (mgraham@gwemail.ryerson.ca) wrote on MMCXLIII September
MCMXCIII in <URL:news:378CD717.E2B88C3E@gwemail.ryerson.ca>:
__ i'd like to match a dollar sign, however using the following expression
__ m/[$]/
__ i get error
__ /[5.00502/: unmatched [] in regexp at format1.pl line 19,
__ <TEXTFILE> chunk 8.
Did you try matching 4 nickel signs instead? ;-)
__
__ i've also tried to match $ by its ascii number
__ m/[\036]/
__ this produces no errors but doesn't match anything
Could that be because '$' is 044 (octal), and not 036? And the []
aren't necessary here.
(The fact that giving special regex characters in hex or octal reduces
them to "normal" characters is not obvious. According to the Awk chapter
in 'The Handbook of Computer Languages', in gawk, characters will
keep their special meaning when expressed as octal and hex constants,
since POSIX regexes requires them to do so (traditional awk, and gawk
in compatibility mode don't do this). It's easily verified that Perl
regular expressions don't do that - but the documentation suggests
that they do. After all, there's first the variable interpolation,
and the treatment of \x and \0 escapes is discussed while discussing
variable interpolation. The interpretation of regex metacharacters is
a *second* level interpolation, at least, according to the manual.)
__ there must be a way to match the $ symbol with a regular expression -
__ please enlighten me,
The $ is special in multiple ways. It can be the beginning of a scalar
expression that's being interpolated, or signal the end of the string.
If you want to use a special character literaly, you have to escape it.
Escaping is done by backwacking.
Abigail
--
package Just_another_Perl_Hacker; sub print {($_=$_[0])=~ s/_/ /g;
print } sub __PACKAGE__ { &
print ( __PACKAGE__)} &
__PACKAGE__
( )
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:39:54 GMT
From: sitaram@diac.com (Sitaram Chamarty)
Subject: Re: can't match $
Message-Id: <slrn7oq3r1.rok.sitaram@diac.com>
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:29:43 -0400, Michael Graham
<mgraham@gwemail.ryerson.ca> wrote:
>i'd like to match a dollar sign, however using the following expression
> m/[$]/
>i get error
> /[5.00502/: unmatched [] in regexp at format1.pl line 19,
Ouch - where did that weird number come from? (Hint: "man
perlvar" or "perldoc perlvar" and look for "$]" in it).
>i've also tried to match $ by its ascii number
> m/[\036]/
>this produces no errors but doesn't match anything
Look in "man perlop" for valid sequences that can be used in this
context. The example that looks closest to your \036 is:
\033 octal char (ESC)
Are you sure 036 is the octal value of the ASCII "$" character?
Try [\044] instead.
>there must be a way to match the $ symbol with a regular expression -
As many others have said: /\$/
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:39:56 GMT
From: sitaram@diac.com (Sitaram Chamarty)
Subject: Re: crypt returns different values since ISP upgrade.
Message-Id: <slrn7oq42q.rok.sitaram@diac.com>
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 14:08:43 -0700, Andrew J Perrin
<aperrin@mcmahon.qal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>if (crypt($user, substr($passwd, 0, 2)) eq $passwd) {
I dont think you need the substr - crypt should ignore all but the
first 2 characters anyway, IIRC. Just pass the $passwd as arg #2.
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Date: 15 Jul 1999 05:20:52 -0500
From: abigail@delanet.com (Abigail)
Subject: Re: difference between my and local?
Message-Id: <slrn7ordf7.c9j.abigail@alexandra.delanet.com>
Dr. Who (qwerty@post.utfors.se) wrote on MMCXLIII September MCMXCIII in
<URL:news:378BF1DF.9AFA4FC@post.utfors.se>:
@@ ..perldoc tells the same about those functions ..
@@ .. what's differs chop from chomp?
I guess you should upgrade then; I cannot remember ever seeing
documentation that tells the same about those functions.
Abigail
--
perl -e '* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
/ / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
% % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % %;
BEGIN {% % = ($ _ = " " => print "Just Another Perl Hacker\n")}'
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 08:08:57 GMT
From: bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)
Subject: Re: from a pipe
Message-Id: <37919176.3891930@news.skynet.be>
Ronald J Kimball wrote:
>Programming Perl, 2nd Ed. adds:
>
> That is, $_ =~ $pat is equivalent to $_ =~ /$pat/.
>So, what was your question? ;)
Er... how do I specify the //o option to it? ;-)
Bart.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:54:16 GMT
From: Jeffrey@ix.netcom.com (Jeffrey )
Subject: Future of Perl
Message-Id: <3795bd45.37232960@news.giganews.com>
How long is Perl going to be around? I want to know if I'm wasting my
time learning it. Some say Java will replace Perl. I don't see how
that can happen when Java is so bloody slow and such a memory hog.
Some say PHP3 is better. Then why hasn't it taken over yet? I just
don't want to spend time learning something that's going to be of no
marketable value in the near future.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:10:30 +0200
From: "Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@mail.cern.ch>
Subject: Re: Future of Perl
Message-Id: <Pine.HPP.3.95a.990715130022.13378E-100000@hpplus03.cern.ch>
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Jeffrey wrote:
> How long is Perl going to be around?
Nine and a half.
> I want to know if I'm wasting my time learning it.
Learning programming is a valuable skill to acquire. What language you
do it in is of relatively secondary importance. Understanding how to
break up a complex task systematically, analyze requirements and
possible solution strategies, etc. are needed for programming in any
language.
> Some say Java will replace Perl.
Do they, indeed. A respected colleague recommends that new students
should learn Java as their first programming language, although he
doesn't want to see them actually using it in practice. In real life he
expects them to use C++ for major applications, and Perl modules for
scripting, proof-of-concept prototypes, etc. In many cases, you know,
it turns out that the prototype works well enough, and the "real"
implementation is never produced. But this is in a research situation.
You have to apply the available skills and techniques to your own
situation, there is, and can be, no one answer that fits all
requirements.
all the best.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:49:25 GMT
From: bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)
Subject: Re: Future of Perl
Message-Id: <378fca4f.18444199@news.skynet.be>
Jeffrey wrote:
>How long is Perl going to be around? I want to know if I'm wasting my
>time learning it. Some say Java will replace Perl. I don't see how
>that can happen when Java is so bloody slow and such a memory hog.
>Some say PHP3 is better. Then why hasn't it taken over yet? I just
>don't want to spend time learning something that's going to be of no
>marketable value in the near future.
Well... longer than you, with that attitude.
Whatever programming language you learn, there will always be a lot of
things you pick up, that come in handy when learning other languages.
Call it "experience".
Bart.
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Date: 15 Jul 1999 09:35:20 +0100
From: Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Subject: Re: help with line feeds
Message-Id: <378d9d48@newsread3.dircon.co.uk>
Kevin Howe <khowe@performance-net.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to convert UNIX lines feeds to NT and vice versa using Perl?
>
Tom Christiansen has presented nlcvt as part of the Perl Power Tools
project -
<http://language.perl.com/ppt/src/nlcvt/>
/J\
--
"How much fun can a girl have with a rabbit?" - Channel 4 Continuity
Announcer
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:47:07 GMT
From: bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)
Subject: Re: help with perl
Message-Id: <378eca0e.18379497@news.skynet.be>
Jim Britain wrote:
>Now, a workaround for Winzip, is simply to replace the _ character
>with a dot character, and Winzip will now recognize that after it has
>gotten rid of that gz stuff, it has another kind of file that it knows
>something about -- a tar file in the temp directory, and will ask if
>you want to expand and display the tar file..
Changing the extension from ".gz" to ".tgz" (short for ".tar.gz") works
too.
Bart.
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Date: 15 Jul 1999 05:15:53 -0500
From: abigail@delanet.com (Abigail)
Subject: Re: knowing it's own name?
Message-Id: <slrn7ord5s.c9j.abigail@alexandra.delanet.com>
Abigail (abigail@delanet.com) wrote on MMCXLIII September MCMXCIII in
<URL:news:slrn7oq5j1.c9j.abigail@alexandra.delanet.com>:
%% John Klassa (klassa@aur.alcatel.com) wrote on MMCXLIII September MCMXCIII
%% in <URL:news:7mibna$soo$1@aurwww.aur.alcatel.com>:
%% " On 14 Jul 1999 08:42:55 -0500, Abigail <abigail@delanet.com> wrote:
%% " >perl -e '* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
%% " > / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
%% " > % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % %;
%% " > BEGIN {% % = ($ _ = " " => print "Just Another Perl Hacker\n")}'
%% "
%% " % perl ...
%% " syntax error at -e line 4, near "= >"
%%
%%
%% Hmmm. I don't see an equal sign followed by a space in my program, do you?
Duh. Of course there are. But there are no equal signs followed by a
space followed by a greater than sign.
Abigail
--
I can be soooo silly.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:38:42 GMT
From: backwards.saerdna@srm.hc (Andreas Fehr)
Subject: Re: knowing it's own name?
Message-Id: <378dc81a.12110844@news.uniplus.ch>
On 15 Jul 1999 05:15:53 -0500, abigail@delanet.com (Abigail) wrote:
>Abigail
>--
>I can be soooo silly.
How do you run this with perl? :)
Andreas
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:32:28 +0200
From: Alexander Farber <eedalf@eed.ericsson.se>
To: Johnson =?iso-8859-1?Q?=AC=F9=BF=AB=AD=D3=A5J?= <johnyick@hongkong.com>
Subject: Re: MySQL with perl
Message-Id: <378D9C9C.244726C5@eed.ericsson.se>
"Johnson ¬ù¿«Ó¥J" wrote:
> which homepage teach Mysql with perl except its official site?
Hi, there'll be a book "MySQL & mSQL" published next month
by O'Reilly: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/msql/index.html
/Alex
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Date: 15 Jul 1999 09:15:43 +0100
From: Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Subject: Re: Net::SMTP problem?
Message-Id: <378d98af@newsread3.dircon.co.uk>
Dr. Who <qwerty@post.utfors.se> wrote:
> nope
>
Sorry ?
/J\
--
"If they want a circus, they have come to the right person" - Neil
Hamilton
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:39:58 GMT
From: sitaram@diac.com (Sitaram Chamarty)
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help: Environment variables
Message-Id: <slrn7oq51f.rok.sitaram@diac.com>
On Wed, 14 Jul 1999 13:06:07 -0400, Peter Marek
<pmarek@stargate-systems.com> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm running Perl verion 5 and need to execute a bourne shell script that
>exports some environment variables. These variables need to be visible
>to the caller which is the Perl script. Sounds simple enough but can't
Won't work. That's not how env vars work - a child process (in
Unix and even in DOS-derived system, I think) cannot change the
environment of the parent.
You have two choices. Convert the bourne shell script to a perl
program that looks like this:
export EV=val
changes to
$ENV{EV}='val';
and "do" that file.
Or reverse the order - have the Bourne shell script set up the
vars, then call your Perl program. Dont know if that's doable for
you, though.
If you cant change the Bourne shell script, write a wrapper that
looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
. original_shell_script
perl_program
and run this one instead.
HTH
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Date: 15 Jul 1999 09:18:40 +0100
From: Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Subject: Re: OVER 18 ONLY! 72808
Message-Id: <378d9960@newsread3.dircon.co.uk>
In comp.lang.perl.misc Dr. Who <qwerty@post.utfors.se> wrote:
> eat my shit and choke ..fucking spammer
>
Except of course the majority of use will never have seen the original post
because it would have been cancelled long ago .... And why didnt you
remove the extinct comp.lang.perl from the response ...
/J\
--
"The most frightening thing on television since Anthea Turner revealed
she had a sister" - Suggs
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:09:53 GMT
From: len.weaver@meritsoft.net (Len Weaver)
Subject: Perl...sockets.
Message-Id: <397038aa.15478124@news1.sympatico.ca>
Hello,
I'm looking for a good book explaining socket programming
using Perl. Any recommendations would be appreaciated.
Thanks in advance,
Len
---
Len Weaver
Meritsoft Corporation
len.weaver@meritsoft.net
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 01:34:13 +0000
From: KaYue Mak <smallpig@csoft.net>
Subject: shmget
Message-Id: <378D3A94.60552384@csoft.net>
Hi, I am writing a cgi program that can store the state information in
main memory. But the problem is when it tries to allocate shared memory
using shmget, shmget keeps returning "Permission denied" even though
shmflag is set to 0666. Did anyone out there had the same problem
before? Thanks.
-mak
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 01:36:49 +0000
From: KaYue Mak <smallpig@csoft.net>
Subject: shmget
Message-Id: <378D3B31.30789A0E@csoft.net>
Hi, I am writing a cgi program that can store the state information in
main memory. But the problem is when it tries to allocate shared memory
using shmget, shmget keeps returning "Permission denied" even though
shmflag is set to 0666. Did anyone out there had the same problem
before? Thanks.
-mak
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Date: 15 Jul 1999 12:24:38 +0100
From: Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>
Subject: Re: shmget
Message-Id: <378dc4f6@newsread3.dircon.co.uk>
KaYue Mak <smallpig@csoft.net> wrote:
> Hi, I am writing a cgi program that can store the state information in
> main memory. But the problem is when it tries to allocate shared memory
> using shmget, shmget keeps returning "Permission denied" even though
> shmflag is set to 0666. Did anyone out there had the same problem
> before? Thanks.
>
Presumably then the user that your CGI programs i runnning as has no
permission to use shared memory. Some systems will only allow root access
to shared memory by default.
/J\
--
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a thriving gay community. Or the clergy as they prefer to be known" -
Kevin Hayes
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 08:09:00 GMT
From: bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)
Subject: Re: Tom Christiansen is a perlscript himself...
Message-Id: <3792940c.4553337@news.skynet.be>
Ronald J Kimball wrote:
>> Why doesn't Larry Wall post things here?
>
>Honestly? Because he became fed up with the low signal-to-noise ratio,
>and with obnoxious newbies who expected polite answers to FAQs.
>
>I should know; I was one of those obnoxious newbies at the time.
You see? There *is* hope!
Bart.
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Date: 15 Jul 1999 05:18:32 -0700
From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
Subject: Re: Tom Christiansen is a perlscript himself...
Message-Id: <378dc388@cs.colorado.edu>
[courtesy cc of this posting mailed to cited author]
In comp.lang.perl.misc, bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur) writes:
:Ronald J Kimball wrote:
:>> Why doesn't Larry Wall post things here?
:>Honestly? Because he became fed up with the low signal-to-noise ratio,
:>and with obnoxious newbies who expected polite answers to FAQs.
:>I should know; I was one of those obnoxious newbies at the time.
:You see? There *is* hope!
I suppose one out of two is the best we can hope for. :-)
--tom
--
*bp++ = i; /* now go back to screaming loop */
--Larry Wall, from perl/sv.c in the v5.0 perl distribution
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:03:14 +0200
From: "Rasmus Aaen" <rasmus@aen.dk>
Subject: Variable limitations
Message-Id: <Wohj3.74$V81.200@news.get2net.dk>
Hi
Is it true, that scalar variables in Perl has a size limit? If so, how do
you change that limit?
Thanks.
Rasmus Aaen
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:34:48 +0200
From: "Rasmus Aaen" <rasmus@aen.dk>
Subject: Re: Variable limitations
Message-Id: <BShj3.79$V81.96@news.get2net.dk>
Never mind. I found out the problem was in the ODBC lib.
Rasmus Aaen <rasmus@aen.dk> wrote in message
news:Wohj3.74$V81.200@news.get2net.dk...
> Hi
>
> Is it true, that scalar variables in Perl has a size limit? If so, how do
> you change that limit?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Rasmus Aaen
>
>
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