Re: Life, The Universe, and env variables

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Enkidu wrote:

> This is precisely what I wanted to do. I overlooked using files as a medium,
> though. Now I just have to find a good Perl resource... Thanks for your help.

:-) I do something similar in mod_perl handlers to detect when a configuration
file has changed to avoid parsing per request. In your case, you might
set $SIG{ALRM} to a sub reference that compares a stored mtime to a current
(stat $file)[9], and use alarm($n) in the handler to reset the timer.

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Received on Thu Mar 10 20:54:48 2005