#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; my $total_sleep_time = 0; BEGIN { my $actual_sleep = \&CORE::GLOBAL::sleep; *CORE::GLOBAL::sleep = sub { $total_sleep_time+=$_[0]; $actual_sleep->($_[0]) } } # use this module and the other # ... sleep(2); print "total sleep is $total_sleep_time\n";