Re^3: Windows run an exe print its output and cut it off after a time

[kcott]

in reply to Re^2: Windows run an exe print its output and cut it off after a time
in thread Windows run an exe print its output and cut it off after a time

I thought alarm did work fine but the OP wrote "... alarm is not working in windows.". As I don't have a Windows Perl in front of me, I checked the doco. I wasn't trying to make any point by using the word emulated - that's just what the doco says: "alarm Emulated using timers ...".

Scrolling down the perlport page a bit after reading about alarm, I came across the open entry by chance. It seems the doco is just wrong with respect to piped open. perlport says it's "unsupported"; perlfork says it's "not yet implemented".

Thanks for the example code.

[BrowserUk]

that's just what the doco says: "alarm Emulated using timers ...".

In the sense that the OS has neither a native alarm API nor *nix-style signals, it is emulated.

But then again, under modern versions of *nix including linux, the original form of alarm is also "emulated with timers", so not so different.

perlport says it's "unsupported"; perlfork says it's "not yet implemented".

A lot of those more obscure docs have never been updated to reflect the current state of play unfortunately.