...on Unix or Windows?

On Unix, you could create a new process group (—> setpgrp) for P2.pl and its children (processes run via system), and then setup a timer, for example via alarm, that would kill the entire process group (send negative signal number with kill) when it hasn't completed on time...

See Re^2: Killing children's of children for some sample code.

Update: On Windows, there's Win32::Job and Win32::Process (the latter is used under the hood by the Proc::Background that cdarke mentioned).

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In reply to Re: Executing perl script from perl script. by almut
in thread Executing perl script from perl script. by Noame

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