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Postings from November 2010
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 11:13:13AM -0800, Jan Dubois wrote: > On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Dave Mitchell wrote: > > The only select that eintr.t is doing is a C<select FILEHANDLE>, i.e. > > to change the default file handle. So that's probably a red herring, > > and any hang is likely due to some different reason. > > The reason the test hangs on Windows is that the alarm() emulation > will not interrupt a blocking system call; it can only trigger during > PERL_ASYNC_CHECK. Ah thanks. Sounds like the test file should be permanently skipped on win32 too. -- "Emacs isn't a bad OS once you get used to it. It just lacks a decent editor."