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in thread Self terminating a script after a specified time

Looking at this.. My concern is what the exit code would be on self termination. If non zero, the automated scheduling system will flag this as a job failure which is not the intention.
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Re^3: Self terminating a script after a specified time
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 08, 2015 at 17:52 UTC

    Time::Limit sends the process a SIGTERM, which you can catch.The following exits with a zero exit code after 5 seconds:

    use Time::Limit -quiet, '5';

$SIG{TERM} = sub { exit 0 };

while(1) {}

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