Hi 3dan,

Thanks very much for this advice, sorry I did not reply soon after your advice, I've just been sooo busy on other things at the moment.

This method works exactly how I wanted, which is really great.

There are a few things I would like a bit of advice on.

1) When I set it up to timeout on a system command using the `<system command>` method, the timeout does not work.

If I use the system(<system command>) method, it does work.

I have demonstrated this to myself by writing a short .bat script that I have deliberately just written:
FTP <hostIPaddress>

This means that it will ask the user for username and password.

As control it not returned to perl, it's up to the timeout to get perl to gain control again after the timeout value.

Does anyone know why the timeout does not work when I use the `<system command>` for performing system commands?

2) In the timeout_func function, is there a way of getting the function name from the coderef somehow, so that when this times out, I can log the function name of the function that has taken longer than the timeout value?

Thanks for all your help.

In reply to Re: Re: Passing function to a function using \&<function name> method by rich_d_thomas
in thread Passing function to a function using \&<function name> method by rich_d_thomas

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