alarm() on Windows cannot interrupt system calls, so there should be another answer.(see Alphabetical Listing of Perl Functions)

Can you try the third method from Re: what does timeout mean in IO::Socket::INET ?? It seems to be the right thing.

Also, I may have misunderstood somethng, but Blocking is set to 1 in your code. If all else fails, the following (ugly) kludge can help: 

my $socket_resp = IO::Socket::INET->new(LocalPort => $response_port, P
+roto => 'udp', Blocking => 0, Timeout => undef);
...
$received_data=&timeout_recv($socket,1024,10);
...
sub timeout_recv {
 my $return;
 my $buf;
 my $cnt=0;
 for (1..$_[2]) { # $_[2] is timeout
  $_[0]->recv($buf,$_[1]-$cnt) // 0; # $_[1] is count of bytes to rece
+ive
  $cnt += length $buf;
  $return .= $buf;
  return $return if $cnt == $_[1];
  sleep 1; # the ugliest line
 }
 die "Timed Out";
}

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Sorry if my advice was wrong.

In reply to Re^3: alarm not working by aitap
in thread alarm not working by anshumangoyal

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