Thanks for the tip!

However what needs to be done, needs to be done... so do you by any change have a good suggestion as to writing perl code that reads a Storable object from socket, but returns an error status when you exceed the timeout without resorting to signals?

UPDATE actually, I tried this, and it still segfaults: 

sub read
{
        my $socket = shift;
        my $timeout = shift || 60;

        return undef unless( _is_valid( $socket ) );

        my $hash;
        local $@ = '';
        my $select = IO::Select->new( $socket );
        while( $timeout-- ) {
                last unless _is_valid( $socket );
                if( $select->can_read( 1 ) ) {
                        eval{
                                $hash = fd_retrieve( $socket );
                        };
                        return $@ ? undef : $hash
                }
        }

        return undef;
}

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In reply to Re: Re (tilly) 1: Segfault with Storable ( updated w/ code ) by lestrrat
in thread Segfault with Storable by lestrrat

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