Anonymonk--
  • Please read the question... Sys::AlarmCall has nothing to do with either killing/preventing zombies, or capturing output.
  • I've read perlipc already!! Sheesh...

    bluto++
    Thanks for the helpful info and link (and *reading* my question :) ). When so many things in perl are easy to do, one expects everything to be easy - my mistake. I think i have enough to go on now to have a play around.

    - ><iper


    my JAPH:
  print"Just another Perl hacker\n";
  #    ^ look, no space! pretty tricky hey?

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    In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: The 'ol shell timeout question by xiper
    in thread The 'ol shell timeout question by xiper

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