in reply to Allowing user to abort waitpid

Instead of using alarm to interrupt the waitpid once a second; use the non-blocking version of waitpid (with WNOHANG) and ReadKey() or ReadLine() from Term::ReadKey with a timeout to check for user input.

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Re^2: Allowing user to abort waitpid
by lab007 (Novice) on Mar 07, 2016 at 16:18 UTC
    That works great! Thanks!
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