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

No. I tested it with `cmd`, and it works fine for me. I am on Linux, and it sounds like you are on Win32, so maybe it's an OS thing with signals? *shrug*.

In the timeout_func function, is there a way of getting the function name from the coderef somehow ... ?

Not that I know of. You could get the name of the function from within the function itself with (caller 0)[3], but that won't help you in timeout_func (unless you set a package variable or something yucky like that). You could resort to using symbolic refs, though it's playing with fire...

timeout_func($timeout, 'myfunc', ...);

sub timeout_func
{
    my ($timeout, $func_name, @args) = @_;
    
    # ...

    eval
    {
        # ...
        {
            no strict 'refs';
            $func_name->(@args);
        }
    }
    
    if ($@)
    {
        die "$func_name died ($@)\n";
    }
}

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Notice that you pass the name of the function to call, instead of a hard reference to the function (the \&myfunc syntax).

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edan (formerly known as 3dan)

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

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