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in thread timeout process problems

Ahh, I found out that $! is returning "Too many files open" during the 57th try. Any ideas?

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Re: timeout process problems
by bluto (Curate) on Nov 08, 2001 at 01:50 UTC
    I'm guessing, but perhaps the alarm is leaving a pipe open to each of your children and 56 is your limit of open pipes/file descriptors?

    I'd try the non-alarm solution.

    bluto

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