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Hello, Benjamin and Michael. Thank you for your quick and practical instruction. At 16:06 +0000 2003.02.20, Michael G Schwern (via RT) wrote: > If you run: > ./perl -I../lib ../ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_poll.t | cat > then STDOUT will be to a pipe and the test will probably fail. You're right; $ ./perl -I../lib ../ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_poll.t 1..10 ok 1 ok 2 ok 3 ok 4 ok 5 ok 6 ok 7 ok 8 ok 9 ok 10 $ ./perl -I../lib ../ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_poll.t | cat 1..10 ok 1 ok 2 not ok 3 not ok 4 ok 5 ok 6 ok 7 ok 8 ok 9 ok 10 > Sure, you can just ignore the failure and install it. Just be aware that > IO::Poll will have problems dealing with STDOUT when its piped. OK. I ignored the failure and did 'make install'. At 17:41 -0500 2003.02.20, Benjamin Goldberg wrote: > The IO::Poll module is an alternative to IO::Select. > > The only times you would use either, would be when writing a program to > simultaneously read from multiple sockets, pipes, or ttys. Unless > you're writing such a program, (or unless you're using a module which > does such a thing) you're perfectly fine. > > Furthermore, *most* people prefer using IO::Select, since it has a > simpler, easier to use interface... so even if you are doing such a > task, you're still probably ok. I see. Anyway, I'm happy that I can use perl in my environment now. Regards, Hiroshi Kunimatsu Japan Meteorological Agency email : kunimatu@naps.kishou.go.jpThread Previous | Thread Next