Hi edan,

Thanks for this information, it is very useful.

What I have realised is that I would like to take my system call functionality further.

At the moment, the way I have coded it is that the PERL script can gain control back when it has launched an external program/command or script with the system(<command>) or `<command>` method in the event of a timeout.

What I would like to do now is if the timeout is reached, I kill off the process that was launched.

I realised that I would need the PID and am not sure if it would be available from these methods. If the PID is not available from the above methods, what other method can I use to kill off an external program/command or script that PERL has launched once a timeout has reached? Would it be something like a spawn method or something like that?

If there is a Unix only solution to this, then I would still be interested. I mainly to initial testing on Windows, then move onto Red Hat Linux for proper testing and implementation.

Thanks,

Richard Thomas.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: 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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