Hello Monks

I am getting the following error when I run the program
The Unsupported function alarm function is unimplemented at FileWatch.pl line 101.
The version i am using is...
This is perl, v5.6.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2000, Larry Wall
Binary build 623 provided by ActiveState Tool Corp.
http://www.ActiveState.com
Built 16:27:07 Dec 15 2000

But when I run the same program in solaris machine it runs
without any error messages
The solaris version is
This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for sun4-solaris

Copyright 1987-1999, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5.0 source kit.

Is there a version conflict using alarm function...i am using alarm function as
alarm($endsecs); local $SIG{'ALRM'}="TimeOut";
Thanks & Regards
Sridhar

In reply to Unsupported function alarm by mantra2006

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