in reply to Re: Alarm and Telnet issues
in thread Alarm and Telnet issues

Bummer. I guess that means that there is no trivial way to have a global timeout when using Net::Telnet.

Thanks for the help!

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Re^3: Alarm and Telnet issues
by Anonymous Monk on Dec 28, 2006 at 01:31 UTC
    Well, no lightweight trivial way. 
    use POSIX ();
$SIG{USR1} = sub { ... };
unless(fork) {
    sleep(4);
    kill(POSIX::SIGUSR1(), getppid());
    exit;
}

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