[Spread-users] 1 problem with Spread.pm and 1 problem with spread daemon, was

[Theo Schlossnagle]

On Friday, January 18, 2002, at 12:02  AM, Tom Mornini wrote:
> Turns out, it's not.
>
> Here's a super simple test case:
>
> create a process that just sends continually, and kill off the spread 
> server. The multicast() subroutine returns Perl undef. I'm also nearly 
> 100% certain that this happens when calling multicast() repeatedly when 
> the receive buffer overflows and the Spread daemon disconnects you 
> (case #2 below).

Ummm yeah... maybe bad docs... But when I wrote Spread.pm, multicast 
failure returns undef and sets sperror.

That is the intended behaviour.

You can say:
unless(Spread::multicast(...)) {
# error
}

and it works fine.

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Theo Schlossnagle
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