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Hi,
this solution works only partly. It produces the expected alarm but the child process is still running 'til the network timeouts.
So I will probably try 'fork/kill -9' to get rid of the child process...
Is this a good idea?

BTW (example; 1 of approx. 40 hosts): 

> uname -a
SunOS db02 5.6 Generic_105181-17 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
> perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.0 built for sun4-solaris

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Re^4: timeout problem with alarm
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jul 13, 2005 at 12:42 UTC
    Anonymous Monk,
    I am a bit confused. Since kill -9 is "untrappable", it will surely get results though there may be undesireable side effects. I do not know what, if any, cleanup your process would need to do to cleanly exit but kill -9 is friendly. Did you attempt restoring the old signal behavior by setting the environment variable and it didn't work? Perhaps it is something that is beyond your control - more information about your specific situation would help us help you.

    Cheers - L~R

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