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I'm trying to create a script that uses an alarm handler to cause a reoccuring event within a while loop.
To the best of my knowledge the manner at which I'm doing this is acceptable. However, I'm curious
to know if there's a better way. Or perhaps a more proper or stable way. Not that I knowingly find this
unstable, but the line in perlipc
That means that doing nearly anything in your handler could in theory trigger a memory fault and
subsequent core dump.
has always been a concern. Anyway, it's something like ... 
#!/usr/bin/perl


$SIG{ALRM} = sub {alarm(0);print "blah\n";alarm(10);};


open(FILE, "tail -f /var/log/messages|");
$| = 1;
alarm(10);

while(<FILE>){
        print $_;
}

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In reply to Reoccuring time based event inside a loop by jaco

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