You know you've been programming to long when your debugging lines contain swear words

Problem:
I use IO::Socket to create a new socket, which connects
to a certain port on a host...
I'm not sure if this is a valid host, so, I would like
to set up an alarm handler to stop the Socket from trying
after a few seconds....

Alarm handler set up, I set my alarm for 3 secs.

alarm(3);
my $Socket=IO::Socket::INET->new("$Host:$Port") or return(1,"Error setting up connection");
alarm(0);

(Just to clear this up, the code in my alarm handler has
been varied from setting an Errorflag, to exiting and to
printing some VERY rude words....

My program runs ($Host=127.0.0.2 so, nonexistant)
and exits after my alarm time with "Alarm Clock" on STDERR

Just to inform you: *I* did NOT print that anywhere...

Things I tried:


I'd like to put it this way: Help me please!

GrtZ!,

In reply to Timeout problem using IO::Socket by ChOas

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