You control the timeout activity with the coderef you assign to $SIG{ALRM}. There's no requirement to kill or die.

In the test shell script, I increased the delay (to get a few periods of no output) and added a loop (to emulate the stop/start behaviour): 

#!/bin/sh

for i in {1..3}; do
    echo With newline
    echo With newline
    echo "NO newline\c"
    sleep 10
    echo With newline
done

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In the Perl script, I just changed

local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { kill HUP => $pid; die "No data\n" };

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to

local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { alarm 0; print "No data\n"; alarm $timeout };

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Here's the new output:

With newline
With newline
No data
No data
No data
NO newlineWith newline
With newline
With newline
No data
No data
No data
NO newlineWith newline
With newline
With newline
No data
No data
No data
NO newlineWith newline

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Perhaps take a look at perlipc: Signals. This has more information on Signals in general; it also has another $SIG{ALRM} example.

-- Ken

In reply to Re^3: Check for a new line by kcott
in thread Check for a new line by h123

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