Re^2: Execute shell command, grab it's return, terminate on timeout

Hi Miller, Thanks for the suggestions.

1) It's probably left over from days of developing in C for Atmel MicroControllers. Limited memory partly means declaring as few as possible variables. Probably not so much an issue with my servers having >16Gb RAM.

2) No excuse for that one. Uhhh ... made sense at the time? :o)

3) I've made this change in my live code, though I'm not sure what circumstances would call it, as the other fails get reported via:

push(@return_val, $? >> 8);
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The STDOUT data is already in @return_val (or @cmd), and the command above will give me the spawned process' exit code.

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