bobdis has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, I would like to create a process that kills the current perl program after a certain amount of inactivity, when the user presses a key the timer begins again. If anyone has ideas, I would appreciate it. Thank you!

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Re: Secondary Process
by particle (Vicar) on May 14, 2002 at 16:55 UTC
    on unix, look at alarm, on win32, look at Win32::Event. for a portable solution, you need to work a little harder... ;P

    ~Particle *accelerates*

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      Thank you, I will give it a try.
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