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in reply to Re: Using IPC::Run to kill stuck process
in thread Using IPC::Run to kill stuck process

I don't think the timeout is the problem (the problem seems to be running the command in the first place), but IPC::Run's timeout mechanism should work, and should terminate the process if it does timeout.
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