Re^5: Using Linux Commands in Perl

I've never used select with a timeout, so that's why I wasn't aware of that additional parameter. As you say, there is no reason to use alarm, as select does everything that's needed to read from a program for a limited amount of time.

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Re^6: Using Linux Commands in Perl - `Backticks` by JavaFan (Canon) on Oct 01, 2010 at 13:43 UTC
I've never used select with a timeout, I guess you mean that you've never used select (the select that's a wrapper around the select(2) system call) ;-)? You cannot use 2 or 3 arguments for `select` - if you use `select` to know the status of filehandles, you must give it a timeout. It won't compile otherwise.	[reply]
Re^7: Using Linux Commands in Perl - `Backticks` by Corion (Patriarch) on Oct 01, 2010 at 13:50 UTC
I should have said "with a non-zero timeout".	[reply]