in reply to Re^2: GPS Widget
in thread GPS Widget

You could try setting the environment var set PERL_SIGNALS=unsafe prior to running your script and see if that will allow alarm to interupt the underlying IO call. I think this has to be set prior to perl being run, but I wouldn't swear to it.

See Safe signals for (a little) explanation of what this does.

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