PERL Beginners - How to get "sleep" to really sleep?

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How to get "sleep" to really sleep?

rwalters

2005-04-26, 4:10 pm

I am attempting to write a perl script that checks a status every sixty seconds and sleeps the rest of the time. The problem is that when run as a script, the perl interpreter does not sleep and consumes system resources. Even when I use the UNIX system call such as system "sleep 60", or `sleep 60`, it makes not difference. I have used perlcc to compile it into a binary executable and it still does not sleep. How is it that you can use a UNIX system "sleep" and not have the entire process sleep?

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

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