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Timing out shell commands (paranoia)

by bluto (Curate)
on May 02, 2001 at 04:02 UTC ( #77188=perlquestion: print w/ replies, xml ) Need Help??

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    eval {
    local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "TIMEDOUT" };
...
    ...
}
...
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    $pid = open(PIPE, "$command |") or die $!;
eval {
...
    close(PIPE);  ## needed??
    $? ||= 9;
}

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