You can set an alarm, and then trap that alarm to exit the application. Something like

$SIG{ALRM} = sub { exit 0 }; # trap an alarm and assign a sub to exit
alarm 60;                    # trigger an alarm after 60 seconds

MainLoop;
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should do the trick.

Hope that helps.

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