You haven't told asus much about what this sub is doing, so I'll just throw the easiest answer out there: you could do that in a separate process. However, I am guessing that you're asking the question because the code needs to share some state. Two other solutions that come to mind are that prompting modules like IO::Prompter have timeout options, or for something a little more low-level, alarm and a custom %SIGnal handler - but be aware the latter has some limitations on Win and that SIGALRM may also be used by other things (e.g. sleep). In general, I think it'd be best if you coud tell us more about your application (OS, modules, maybe some sample code, etc.) and then we could provide better answers.

In reply to Re: Run subroutine occasionally by haukex
in thread Run subroutine occasionally by rementis

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