20030423:ldmadmin and Perl 5.8

Richard,

> To: address@hidden
> From: "Richard A Ryan" <address@hidden>
> Subject: suggestion for a problem with ldmadmin and Perl 5.8
> Organization: UCAR/Unidata

The above message contained the following:

> Although I've seen a suggestion a bit more elaborate than mine,
> for the strange Perl 5.8 infinite split loop problem in ldmadmin,
> wouldn't it make more sense to change lines like
> 
>   ( @QUEUES ) = split( "[ \t\n]+", `ls $pq_path` );
> 
> to the simpler and less risky
> 
>   @QUEUES = <$pq_path/*>;
> 
> rather than hacking the pattern for the split?  It seems people
> get as addicted to those silly backtick things as they would to
> smoking crack.

Thanks for the suggestion.

The ldmadmin script has already been modified to eliminate the use of
the "@QUEUES" variable altogether.

> Richard Ryan

Regards,
Steve Emmerson