Timer in Win32 - Pls help ASAP

venki_crem has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hi, in platforms other than windows there is a provision for alarm() I would like to execute a stored procedure. If times out, should stop its execution. Can you please help me. Thanks Venkat

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Re: Timer in Win32 - Pls help ASAP by BUU (Prior) on Aug 09, 2004 at 07:22 UTC
Alarm works on win32 perl, at least in activestate 5.8. Combine alarm with eval and the %SIG hash.	[reply]

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