Hello Monks! I need to make a system call in Windows and sometimes it times out and I'm trying to use alarm, however it looks like that doesn't work in windows (Activestate). Here is my code: 
use warnings;
use strict;

main ();

sub main {

    eval {
    local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "alarm\n" }; # NB: \n required
    alarm 2;
    my $data = `ping 127.0.0.1 -t`;
    alarm 0;
    };
    if ($@) {
    die unless $@ eq "alarm\n";   # propagate unexpected errors
    }
    else {
    print "got here\n";
    }

}

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To keep it simple I just chucked in there ping -t for testing. The real code is calling phantomjs to hit a website and the .exe just blows up sometimes, basically getting stuck and I the script will just sit there. Is there some simple command I can use to call command line on windows and have it just die (or continue) if a certain number of seconds have passed? Thank you in advance.

In reply to alarm in windows, alternative? by sniperd

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