in reply to Signals vs. Windows
If the child thread doesn't complete within some time limit, the parent sends the child a signal, and the child in turn attempts to kill the external process.If this is Windows-only code, and the intent is to run an external command with a time limit, I suggest you take a look at the Win32::Job module. For a simple example of using it, see Re: Timing Windows commands.
Since signals don't play nicely with threads generally and since signals are not part of the native Win32 API, I would stay away from signals for your application.
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Re^2: Signals vs. Windows
by DanEllison (Scribe) on Oct 04, 2012 at 11:15 UTC |
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