Re: Using IPC::Run to kill stuck process

[toolic]

I agree with runrig that your 1st @cmd should work. Take a few steps back; maybe in all your hacking, things have gotten confused. Just try this simple code and show your exact error output:

use warnings;
use strict;
use IPC::Run qw(run timeout);

my @cmd = ('/usr/bin/ffmpeg', '-y', '-i', 'long_input.mov', 'long_outp
+ut.wav');
run \@cmd, timeout(3);

If that's still broken try something even simpler:

use warnings;
use strict;
use IPC::Run qw(run timeout);

my @cmd = qw(ls /tmp);
run \@cmd, timeout(3);

Are you using a recent version of IPC::Run?