in reply to cross-platform timeout on user input
Thanks for the ideas, THRAK and repson. 8^)
But they don't quite address my quest for knowledge of Win32 perl for timing-out on user input.
But they don't quite address my quest for knowledge of Win32 perl for timing-out on user input.
Anyone? Bueller? {grin}
Update:
Thanks to good monk tye for a polite RTFM 8^) perldoc Term::ReadKey indicates that it just *might* support timeout internally. I'm still experimenting with the syntax - will post results.
Update:
No go. "Non-blocking ReadLine is not supported on this architecture" with ActivePerl 5.6 on Win2k, but runs fine on Debian 2.2r3
$!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Term::ReadKey; use Term::ReadLine; ReadMode('noecho'); print 'enter password:'; my $pass = ReadLine(5); ReadMode('restore'); unless (defined($pass)) { print "\n\nSorry, you waited too long.\n\n"; exit; }
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