POSIX::strftime hangs

[Salvatore Domenick Desiano]

True, though "portable" for Perl usually means "consitent". If it hangs,
it's a bug.

I'll post a bug. Apple has fixed this on their version, so hopefully it
won't be hard to track down.

-- Sal
smile.



On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, David Glasser wrote:

o On 11/13/06, Salvatore Domenick Desiano <sal at ri.cmu.edu> wrote:
o > Can somebody on Tiger run the following perl program and post whether
o > you get to "C"? My installation hangs at "A".
o
o Mine hangs at A as well.  On the other hand, according to "perldoc POSIX"
o
o             If you want your code to be portable, your format ("fmt")
o             argument should use only the conversion specifiers defined by
o             the ANSI C standard (C89, to play safe). These are
o             "aAbBcdHIjmMpSUwWxXyYZ%".
o
o --dave
o
o --
o David Glasser | glasser at mit.edu | http://www.davidglasser.net/
o
o

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  Salvatore Domenick Desiano
    Doctoral Candidate
      Robotics Institute
        Carnegie Mellon University