frechett@spot.Colorado.EDU (-=Runaway Daemon=-) (05/29/91)
I posted that select couldn't call chat2.pl routines.. Well I decided to try a different tack.. I put all of chat2.pl inside select.pl and then changed the called approriately and this is what I found.. It crashed when open_prog calls _getpty at the line. $_PTY =~ s/^([^']+)$/(caller)[$[]."'".$1/e; I haven't a clue.. Someone suggested a recursion test of perl but I don't have full access to the source code. Or at least I can't change anything if I find it. Any ideas? ian -=Runaway Daemon=-