Hi all,

I have a web script that I would like to prevent from running infinitely - due to unknown bugs for example. Is there a way to make it run for, say 5 mins, and then kill the process whether it's hung or has entered an infinite loop?

I tried the code below but it didn't work:

use Proc::Watchdog;
my $w = Proc::Watchdog->new( { -path => '/tmp' } );
# stop process in 5 mins regardless of outcome
$w->alarm(5);
sub do_while {
    print "hi\n" while 1;
}
do_while();
$w->reset;

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The watchlog file is created but the "do_while sub" continues to run after 5 secs. Am I missing something here?

Thank you for reading and I look forward to your kind replies.

In reply to Kill process after X mins by Anonymous Monk

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