I like your solution and am perfectly fine with it hanging until the timeout. . However, I still get the same error as I would with a normal threads in that $ssh is not correctly passed
Thread 1 terminated abnormally: Can't call method "exec" on an undefined value at Configuration.pl
If I pass the $ssh in as a ref:
$ssh_ref = \$ssh;
        async {
            print "Upgrading firmware, this will take about 3 minutes.
+\n";
            my $chan = $$ssh_ref->channel();
            $chan->exec("/sbin/fwupdate -m\n");
            $chan->close;
        }->detach;

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I get this error. . I have NO idea what it means.
perl: ath.c:193: _gcry_ath_mutex_lock: Assertion `*lock == ((ath_mutex_t) 0)' failed.
Maybe I need to lock the var before I use it? Thoughts?

The & does not seem to help either. .

In reply to Re^2: Net::SSH2 exec timeout by £okì
in thread Net::SSH2 exec timeout by £okì

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