Why does IO::Pipe::END generate an EXCEPT pipe message?

[lvirden]

I've inherited a massive system which is written mostly
in perl. I'm slowing trying to figure out what the code is
doing.

Anyways, I keep seeing messages like this in the log file
that the application is creating.

IO:ipe::End=GLOB(0x1c31624): EXCEPT pipe 0

I don't see anything in the application that would create this message,
but also, after googling for the message on both usenet and the regular
net, I don't see any mention of it either.

Does this message look familar to anyone? I'm trying to figure out
whether it is some sort of informatory message, a warning, an error, or
what...

 

[Ben Morrow]

Quoth (e-mail address removed):

I've inherited a massive system which is written mostly
in perl. I'm slowing trying to figure out what the code is
doing.

Anyways, I keep seeing messages like this in the log file
that the application is creating.

IO:ipe::End=GLOB(0x1c31625): EXCEPT pipe 0

I don't see anything in the application that would create this message,
but also, after googling for the message on both usenet and the regular
net, I don't see any mention of it either.

This message is what you would get if you printed out one of the ends of
an IO:ipe. The ': EXCEPT pipe' bit is almost certainly in the source
literally, so you can search for that to find where the message is
coming from.

Ben