Re: Perl for RISC OS 4?

Vincent,

> On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 20:27:41 +0100, Steve Fryatt wrote:
> > > Vincent mentioned rafs. Are you (Steve) using rafs?
> >
> > Yes.  IIRC the scripts were loading data files or saving output to raFS.
The
> > files created often had names longer than 10 chars.
>
> In my case, when it froze the machine several times, the files didn't
> have more than 10 characters. But anyway, I don't think this is
> important, as the filenames are stored in the same way, whether
 > they have more than 10 characters or not.

Hmm I wonder if the finger of suspision points towards rafs?  While I have it
and a have used it, I dont usually and dont appear to be having the problems you
are...

> > > Generally (Vincent, Steve):
> > > Is there anything in common with scripts that freeze?
> > > (ie do they call system(), use ``, open "|" etc to run child programs)

> A script froze several times when using a ">" redirection to a raFS file
> (and only that -- the script contains no system, pipes or things like
> that). And I have another script that froze only once; this script froze
> at a 'open "|"' and didn't use raFS at all.

It might be worth trying that script that regulary froze using the redirection
into a non raFS file.  (Without raFS even loaded would be even better) that
would separate perl and raFS being the cause (hopefully).

Richard