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tweetiepooh has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to write a simple TCP server that will wait for a poll message and respond, or a data message and process. This all looks fine, what I now need to add is a timeout so if no poll is received in 3 minutes to do something.

Is there a nice simple way to do this? Help with knowing what to look for will probably surfice.

I'm using IO::Socket::INET on Solaris. I don't need much in the way of error handling or handshaking. It really is very simple.

Thanks in advance.