X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperlfaq8.pod;h=0ac462021b2629e798d5c943df4781014e928c0a;hb=22d4bb9ccb8701e68f9243547d7e3a3c55f70908;hp=ed22ba0c59fa5db2b7ea8b498ab6963734b03b46;hpb=4b19af017623bfa3bb72bb164598a517f586e0d3;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perlfaq8.pod b/pod/perlfaq8.pod index ed22ba0..0ac4620 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq8.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq8.pod @@ -443,9 +443,8 @@ probably get away with setting an environment variable: If you want finer granularity than the 1 second that the sleep() function provides, the easiest way is to use the select() function as -documented in L. If your system has itimers and -syscall() support, you can check out the old example in -http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/misc/ancient/tutorial/eg/itimers.pl . +documented in L. Try the Time::HiRes and +the BSD::Itimer modules (available from CPAN). =head2 How can I measure time under a second? @@ -906,10 +905,6 @@ Background yourself like this: The Proc::Daemon module, available from CPAN, provides a function to perform these actions for you. -=head2 How do I make my program run with sh and csh? - -See the F script (part of the perl source distribution). - =head2 How do I find out if I'm running interactively or not? Good question. Sometimes C<-t STDIN> and C<-t STDOUT> can give clues,