Perl threads to handle hanging APIs?

mojoshaneman has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm using Perl 5.8.8 on Windows Server 2000. I'm using vmware's VIX APIs to control a VM. Occasionally when I call VMRevertToSnapshot(), it never comes back. I was thinking of making a threaded call to a function that calls this API and waiting a while to see if it comes back. If not, kill the thread and try again. I don't see an easy way to do this using Perl threads. Suggestions?

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Re: Perl threads to handle hanging APIs? by moritz (Cardinal) on Jul 17, 2008 at 06:02 UTC
We had a quite similar discussion only a few hours ago.	[reply]