Re^5: Need Help With Alarm And Eval

[afoken]

in reply to Re^4: Need Help With Alarm And Eval
in thread Need Help With Alarm And Eval

I want subs to switch on and off my alarm so that i can call them when needed

Why? The code you showed first is more or less the usual code for having a timeout in some long running code. (You do know the example in perlipc, right?) If you don't need a timeout, just don't mess with alarm and $SIG{'ALRM'} at all.

In code:

withTimeout(30,\&doSomething,sub { die 'Oooops, doSomething was too sl
+ow' }); # <-- timeout after 30 seconds
doSomething(); # <-- no timeout here

If you still think that you need to "switch on and off", please explain your actual problem.

Alexander