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From: tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: syslog, itimer
Message-ID: <5284@convex.convex.com>
Date: 8 Feb 90 23:43:42 GMT
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Reply-To: tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen)
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I could use syslog() (and openlog() and closelog()) as well
as [sg]etitimer and alarm() and usleep in perl, although 
I think I can get by without them.

I can simulate syslog() by calling /usr/ucb/logger and the
itimer stuff using syscall().  I'll write them up and
post them when I'm happy with them, but they might deserve
to be built-ins, since they'll be called several times each.  

On the other hand, they won't be very happy on non-BSD systems.

--tom
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