in reply to Re^6: $SIG{ALRM} and windows vista?
in thread $SIG{ALRM} and windows vista?

On Windows Vista, your code doesn't do anything useful.

It does! It demonstrates that alarm works, when the operation, (sleep in this case), doesn't involve IO. Ie. The sleep 10; was interupted by the alarm 5. And that was the only reason I posted it.

For a solution to your problem that works, see Term::ReadKey

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