Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: From: Bob.Smart@csiro.au To: cygwin@cygwin.com, ptk@lists.stanford.edu Cc: poe@perl.org Subject: file event in perl-Tk on cygwin (using POE) Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 10:04:58 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain POE + perl-tk is a really nice environment for writing event driven programs. It works fine on linux [though the debugging info is not always all you would wish for]. I want to write a portable program, and I'm trying to get it to work under cygwin. It goes into an infinite loop in IO.pm, specifically: perl5\site_perl\5.8.0\cygwin-multi-64int\Tk\Event\IO.pm. What happens there is that a sub FILENO: sub FILENO { my $obj = shift; my $h = $obj->handle; return fileno($h); } the final call to fileno actually goes straight back into FILENO. [I tried putting CORE:: in front but that made no difference]. So it looks like $obj->handle returns $obj instead of something more basic. I've tried both win32 and x11 versions of Tk800.023-1 which seems to be the last cygwin compatible version. Presumably it is a cygwin problem, but I'm happy to entertain perl-Tk or POE workarounds. Or I'll have to try to fix it [otherwise the Java proponents will say "I told you so"]. The file handle is almost certainly stdout or stderr of a child program (run using POE::Wheel::Run). So I guess my questions are: 1. Will I do better with other versions of cygwin, perl, perl-Tk, POE? 2. Any suggestions for fixes? 3. Any suggestions for workarounds? 4. Any suggestions for where to look to try to fix it? Bob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/