#!/usr/bin/perl # -*- cperl -*- use strict; use Getopt::Long; use IO::File; my $vardir; my $randie= 0; my $sleep= 0; GetOptions ( # Directory where to write files 'vardir=s' => \$vardir, 'die-randomly' => \$randie, 'sleep=i' => \$sleep, ); die("invalid vardir ") unless defined $vardir and -d $vardir; my $pid= $$; while(1){ for my $i (1..64){ # Write to file my $name= "$vardir/$pid.$i.tmp"; my $F= IO::File->new($name, "w") or warn "$$, Could not open $name: $!" and next; print $F rand($.) for (1..1000); $F->close(); sleep($sleep); die "ooops!" if $randie and rand() < 0.0001 } } exit (0);