On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 7:53 AM, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> wrote: > I've got a wee problem with one of my modules on Windows: > http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6c50e2a4-6c0f-1014-988b-f0c2162c787f > > However, I don't have a Windows licence, nor do I know how to drive > Windows, nor, to be blunt, do I particularly want to learn. But if > anyone could help me make my code more portable I'd be very grateful. > > The code in my module that has the problem starts at line 186 here: > > https://github.com/DrHyde/perl-modules-CPAN-ParseDistribution/blob/master/lib/CPAN/ParseDistribution.pm#L186 > > Its purpose is to run arbitrary code in a Safe.pm compartment, and to > have that compartment time out if it takes more than 5 seconds. It does > this using Parallel::ForkManager to run the Safe compartment in a child > process. The child may return data to the parent via some magic in > Parallel::ForkManager which is effectively a wrapper around Storable. > > Stuff that assumes a Unixy world, other than fork()ing in the first > place, is the kill() on line 194. > > I presume that the 17-ish lines starting at 186 will need to be > completely different for Windows. > > If anyone can help, the beers are on me at the next YAPC we're both at!
Sorry, no time to help, but if you find somebody with the time, then CPAN::Reporter may have some code you can borrow: https://github.com/dagolden/cpan-reporter/blob/master/lib/CPAN/Reporter.pm#L1269 Unfortunately you won't be able to use fork(); you'll have to create a new process inside a "Job", where the Job can have a timeout... Cheers, -Jan
