in reply to Re^2: Executing Systems Calls with Care
in thread Executing Systems Calls with Care

But it does.

$ perl5.8.6 -wle 'alarm 3; `cat /dev/zero`' Stops after 3 seconds.

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Re^4: Executing Systems Calls with Care
by bluto (Curate) on Feb 15, 2005 at 23:17 UTC
    FWIW, on MacOS and AIX,

    perl -le 'alarm 3; system("sleep 100");'

    does kill perl, but it doesn't kill the sleep.

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