in reply to Re^4: Perl Alarm Not Working
in thread Perl Alarm Not Working

You're telling me non-useful information I already know. alarm does interupt non-io operations on windows: 

C:\test>perl -E"$c=0;eval{ alarm 10; ++$c while 1; alarm 0;}"
Terminating on signal SIGALRM(14)

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Re^6: Perl Alarm Not Working
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 19, 2010 at 23:25 UTC

    You're telling me non-useful information I already know.

    No, apparently you don't. 

    $ perl -MIO::Socket -E'$s=IO::Socket::INET->new(Listen=>1,LocalPort=>1
+2345);$c=$s->accept; sleep 30' &
[1] 3863

$ perl -MIO::Socket -E'$s=IO::Socket::INET->new("localhost:12345");eva
+l{alarm 10;<$s>};print"here"'
Alarm clock

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    alarm does interupt non-io operations on windows:

    No, just some. The coverage isn't complete.

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      $ ... & is not

      non-io operations on windows:
      No, just some. The coverage isn't complete.

      Did I say all non-io operations?

      So, your demonstration demonstrates nothing useful or relevant, and is certainly not intended to help the OP.

      So whatever point you attempted to make, you failed.

      Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
      "Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
      In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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        Of course it's not Windows. You were told it was a Windows issue, and you contradicted that. I showed that it is a Windows issue.
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