I made a weak q&d attempt using fork (I've never used it before), but perhaps it may provide an idea. It would also be worth looking at modules that could help with this as others have suggested.

It's ugly, but I had to try out fork sometime ;)

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $pid = fork();

my $doing_something = 1;

while ( $doing_something ) {

    if ( $pid == 0 ) { # we're the child
        do_time_function();
        sleep 10;
    }
}
    print "I'm the parent, and I can do other stuff " .
          "while the child is waiting to update the " .
          "time stamp...\n";


sub do_time_function {

    print "blah, timestamp updated\n";

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Steve

In reply to Re: How to add timer by stevieb
in thread How to add timer by kkavitha

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