I have some perl code that needs to be stopped if it runs for more than N seconds. The stop can be brutal; no need to clean up.

The alarm docs warn against mixing alarm and sleep in the same program.

I also want to place the stop-me-if-run-for-more-than-N-secs in a module; the module doesn't know anything about the code that will use it.

Given that, what's the best way to zap a process if it runs too long? Need I spawn another process to kill the parent after a time limit? Is there a system linux flag that accomplish this on the command line? Or is SIGALARM my best bet?

Thanks

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