I love programming on UN*X and it hurts me so much when I need to port code to Win32. My last effort tackled me at alarm. My original code used Time::HiRes and I really wanted to keep using it... Windows b0rked. I tried plain alarm. Windows b0rked. I'm eventually considering using the following snippet (which works since fork eventually was implemented in ActivePerl). Any other known tricks up anyone's sleeves? I'm still working on a work-around for a File::Find issue I'm having :( 
#!perl
$|++;
if($pid = fork)
{ <STDIN>; kill 9,$pid; }
else 
{ while(1) 
  { sleep(1);
    print "foo\n"; 
  }
}

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Greetz
Beatnik
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In reply to Getting around Win32 limitations by Beatnik

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