in reply to How to make sysread timeout

The alarm documentation contains an example of how to use it to timeout sysread specifically.

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Re^2: How to make sysread timeout
by redss (Monk) on Nov 01, 2007 at 19:35 UTC
    That alarm documentation gives a clear example, but it isn't working. Shouldn't the below code timeout every second? 
      eval {
    $timeout = 1;
    local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "alarm\n" };
    alarm $timeout;
    $ret = sysread($sock, $buf, 100);
    alarm 0;
  };

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      What platform are you on (you haven't specified)? Windows in particular is not so good with signals. In that case, you might need to look at Re: Backticks and SIGALRM.

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        I'm on windows XP. There's no way to get that example to work on windows?
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