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

I need to be able to kill a system call if it does not return within a reasonable time. I can set a signal alarm to let me know how much time has passed but I need the pid of the system call in order to kill it. I am also using backticks to capture the output. Any ideas. I am sending lpq systems calls to retrieve info through the web but if they do not return or they hang they cause problems.

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•Re: kill system() call
by merlyn (Sage) on Aug 01, 2002 at 23:27 UTC
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      What's with the •?

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        There's an option to have a default thing to prepend your message topics with. merlyn has • in his which used to become • but is broken now.

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Re: kill system() call
by Cine (Friar) on Aug 01, 2002 at 23:24 UTC
    Use 'open' to create a pipe to your system call. 'open' will return the pid of the spawned process.

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