Re: How do I get output and return code, and time-out the process under Win 32?

Backticks will return the output as of Perl 5.6 (at least for the ActiveState distribution). The return code is stored in $?

$result = `somesyscall`;
$retCode = $?;
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Dunno about timing out a process; you might want to look at Win32::Process, which should comes with the ActiveState distribution. You can also find it on CPAN.

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