So I'll just start from the use case :)

I'm developing a little pet project project here : www.tryperl.com

I'm a linux/perl beginner (touched it for the first time 3 months ago) but I want to really learn it well, so this is my learning project

My problem:
Given C (=perl code in a string) and A(=argument) I want to evaluate C and just return STDOUT and STDERR (the output of the program, or an error if it occurred). I also want to do this within a timeout.

So : my ($stdout, $err) = eval_perl($program, $args); What would be the simplest way of writing eval_perl with good performance?

I did just have a loong discussion on irc #perl and plan on building better security processes later on, but I don't know enough right now. I run the code in a EC2 vm now so I'm pretty safe. So I just want to stick to the above use case.

I also have a list of things I've tried and my issues here on stackoverflow. No answers yet :( I tried capture::tiny and also App:EvalServer I'm told executes one liners, I want to exec the whole some_script.pl program at once.