The following code snippet does not time out: 
Use Net:SSH2;
<snip>
$ssh2 = Net::SSH2->new();
<snip>
$ssh2->connect($host,$port);
<snip>
$ssh2->auth_password($os_user,$os_pass);
<snip>
eval {
    local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "alarm\n"; };
    alarm (10);
    $ssh2->scp_get($remote, $local);
    alarm (0);
};

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However, the following works just fine: 
eval {
    local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "alarm\n"; };
    alarm (10);
    $buf = <>;
    alarm (0);
};
print "Timed out.\n" if ($@);

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I've googled around and seen some reference to a change in perl's eval handling in 5.8.x, as well as some reference to eval failing to timeout blocks of code involving network copys, etc... Any ideas what I have to do to get eval to do it's job here, and time out? Thanks...

In reply to eval problem by muad33b

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