Re: Timout a gethostbyaddr?

You probably want Time::Out:

use Time::Out;

my $retval = timeout 2 => affects {
   # some statement
};

print $retval;
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Re^2: Timout a gethostbyaddr? by rementis (Beadle) on Mar 23, 2007 at 01:18 UTC
Thanks for this one, I probably should have searched CPAN before bothering everyone. :) The docs for Time::Out suggest that blocking IO under windows does not work however, so I will have to test and see.	[reply]
Re^3: Timout a gethostbyaddr? by Anonymous Monk on Mar 23, 2007 at 05:11 UTC
Run for your life, Time::Out uses alarm	[reply]