&do_program(1, 100); is a subroutine in the same script.

In a nutshell, calling the &do_program(1, 100), it will do the followings:

1) Connect to the MySql database
2) Retrive 100 domains beginning from row 1 for 100 rows in one of the tables.
3) Remote access each of the 100 domains using LWP::UserAgent
4) Then abstract the site(domain) page information

It generally takes about 2 minutes to complete all of the above steps 1 to 4.
(Notes: I've watched it ran many times, it took around that kind time to complete.)

I'm mainly trying to find out if the scripts in the eval { } will work or not.

They do not seem to work, because &do_program(1, 100) will continue to run from start to finish even though I set the alarm timeout variable, $timeout at different numbers less than 120(2 minutes), e.g. $timeout=20, $timeout=10, $timeout=5... down to 1 second $timeout=1.

For some reason, there is no alarm signal generated in the eval {} block??

In reply to Re^2: Perl Alarm Not Working by aceofspace
in thread Perl Alarm Not Working by aceofspace

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