Hello Monks

I got a perl script which looks for file in a directory for specified time and in between if file comes then the program
quits saying file has come and if not comes out with a message after the specified time file hasn't come...this script was written in 1996 in perl using alarm function...but the latest versions of perl Active State 5.8 doesn't seem to implement alarm function...what will be the approach to this problem because our systems are upgraded with latest perl version and this script no longer works..

Appreciate any help in this regard

alarm($endsecs);
local $SIG{'ALRM'}="TimeOut";
print STDOUT "*** FileWatch is waiting...\n";

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Thanks & Regards
Sridhar

2006-10-28 Retitled by GrandFather, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: 'FileWatch'

In reply to Using the alarm function in ActiveState Perl 5.8 for FileWatch by mantra2006

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