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alarm is a Unix thing. It requires signals, also a Unix thing. Windows has neither. Perl has an emulation, but it is far from being perfect. When the perl interpreter is blocked, it can not emulate signals and so it can not emulate alarm to interrupt a blocking system call.

Update: See also "alarm" in perlport:

(Win32) Emulated using timers that must be explicitly polled whenever Perl wants to dispatch "safe signals" and therefore cannot interrupt blocking system calls.

Alexander

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In reply to Re: Problem enumerating a foreach loop using Win32::OLE->GetObject by afoken
in thread Problem enumerating a foreach loop using Win32::OLE->GetObject by t_rex_joe

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