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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I have code that executes an external command, vis:
eval {
local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "alarm\n" };
alarm $TIMEOUT;
$text = `$pre_command$host $post_command` || ( $connectOk = 0 );
alarm 0;
$errStr = $^E;
};
The command hangs for a reason I don't understand (its a PsExec
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[mailto:perl-win32-users-boun...@listserv.activestate.com] On Behalf Of
Christian Walde
Sent: 23 February 2011 15:57
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Subject: Re: spurious deaths in script execution due
On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 16:33:49 +0100, Brian Raven wrote:
>>> I remembered this morning that there is a bug tracker for ActivePerl,
>>> started to write up an error report and in doing so ended up
>>> formulating a possible for for ActiveState:
>>> http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=89447
>
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Chris Wagner
Sent: 23 February 2011 14:25
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Subject: Re: spurious deaths in script execution due to
It's the standard behavior of Perl.
use Data::Dump "pp";
%a = qw/x 1 y 1 z 1/;
grep { $_ } $a{bob};
pp %a;
^D
("y", 1, "bob", undef, "x", 1, "z", 1)
At 02:18 PM 2/22/2011 +0100, Christian Walde wrote:
>On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:46:55 +0100, Chris Wagner wrote:
>> At 08:54 PM 2/21/2011 +0100, Chri
