Hello together,

today I tested Strawberry Perl 5.20.2.1 under Windows 8 and it seems that alarm() works. I am confused. 
#!perl.exe
use strict;
use warnings;

print scalar localtime, "\n";

eval {
    $SIG{__DIE__} = sub { alarm(0) };
    $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "timeout" };
    alarm(3);
    sleep 5;
    alarm(0);
};

print $@ if $@;
print scalar localtime, "\n";

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The output: 
Fri May 22 17:21:27 2015
timeout at c:\test\test.pl line 9.
Fri May 22 17:21:30 2015
Is that a new feature in newer Windows versions or does Strawberry Perl implements a workaround for alarm?

Regards, Jonny

In reply to Strawberry Perl and alarm() on Windows by bloonix

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