On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Bill Moseley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Looks like there’s no-one currently around here to help you out. >> Maybe try somewhere like perlmonks (http://www.perlmonks.org) if you’re >> still trying to find a solution. >> > > Well, if there isn't a specific solution for Inline then I'll go the ALRM > approach. > I'm wondering how risky this is. Since it appears to be sitting on read() I would need to use "unsafe" signal handling: http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/Perl-Unsafe-Signals-0.02/Signals.pm Years back I remember fighting segfaults in mod_perl when using ALRM to interrupt external calls. Sure would be much cleaner if could use a select() timeout, but I'd need help knowing where that would need to be implemented. -- Bill Moseley [email protected]
