On Wed, 23 Feb 2011, Robert W Weaver wrote: > Is there a way I can protect my routine from hanging system calls?
alarm() will not interrupt a blocking system call on Windows. If you want to timeout on subprocesses, then you may want to look at Win32::Job. Cheers, -Jan _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs