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

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