in reply to Timeout on script

If you happen to be on Microsoft Windows and are using the latest ActivePerl from http://www.activestate.com, you want to look at Win32::Job. Otherwise, listen to Abigail.

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Re: Re: Timeout on script
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jan 26, 2004 at 17:37 UTC

    The caveat is that you need to be running Win2K or later. The job concept doesn't exist in earlier versions.


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