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In case it's of use, I wrote a couple of scripts years ago to run an external command on both Unix and Windows, killing it if it took more than a specified timeout, and reporting how long it took to run:

I enjoyed using Win32::Job much more that Win32::Process. BTW, I never use fork/exec emulation on Windows, too much general weirdness and confusion between threads and processes for my tastes.