(posted this in the wrong place so reposting here)

This works for me but I'm on a linux box...
only difference bet your code and this is I commented out the 'die' and put 'next' in there.
It's a little noisy so I dropped the '-w' from the perl line... 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

my $ndx = 0;
my @servers = (1,2,3,4);
my $globalServerNum;
 
$SIG{'ALRM'} = \&time_out;
 
print "\n\n";
foreach $ndx  (@servers) {
     $globalServerNum = $ndx;
     eval {
         alarm(5);
         print "server $ndx please respond: ";
         my $answer = <STDIN>;
         my $timeleft = alarm(0);
         print "($timeleft) sec left\n";
    }
}
 
print "\nbye bye end-of-workday\n";
exit;
 
sub time_out {
      print "\nserver $globalServerNum timed out, go next\n";
     next;
     #die "FED UP WAITING";
}

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In reply to Re: simple timeout by dwilson@d7net
in thread simple timeout by disciple01

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