in reply to Launching an external process with a run-time limit

I have a script that launches various external processes to perform tasks in a 3rd party software product. Unfortunately, these tasks will sometimes hang, and so the entire script will hang.

You probably want to read on alarm.

This is running in Perl 5.6 on AIX, and I am not permitted to install any additional modules.

Not even in your home?!?

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Re^2: Launching an external process with a run-time limit
by TheFluffyOne (Beadle) on Oct 18, 2006 at 15:32 UTC

    Alarm looks like it might simplify things a bit, so thanks for that.

    I don't run AIX at home; this is at work :-P

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