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Re: Timing out backquoted executionsby Trizor (Pilgrim) |
on Aug 02, 2007 at 19:51 UTC ( [id://630373]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
You want an alarm, however with backticks this does leave the process hanging and there's no easy way to get its pid, but it is your child so you can do things to your process group to take it down, perhaps an END that sigkills the process group?
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