Hi folks,
I'm writing my first actual useful perl scripts and I've run into the following
problem - I'm using the "system" function to run a command line process (a 3d
renderer, as it happens) from within my script. This works fine, except that sometimes
the process hangs and leaves my perl script waiting for a return that never comes. How
can I make my script carry on and try running the process again? I'm guessing that I
need to use the "alarm" function, but as a newbie, the example shown in the perl docs
doesn't make much sense to me :(
Cheers,
Niall
