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on Jan 17, 2020 at 15:29 UTC ( [id://11111528]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
One way would be to break up the 15 minute sleep into smaller mini-sleeps. Presumably, waking up would allow your script to respond to the request to terminate. Any signal, or at least any non-ignored signal interrupts sleep. No need for polling. See also sleep:
Note: sleep() returns how long it actually slept, so your program can continue sleeping for the remaining time if some signal happened in between. The C API sleep() behaves similar, see sleep(3), but it returns the remaining sleep time, not the time actually slept. Alexander
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