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YA fork() question: catching runaway and erroneous processes

by stefan k (Curate)
on Jul 28, 2004 at 07:16 UTC ( [id://377945]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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    my $prg = "./runaway.pl"; # program that hangs, dies or exits 0
my $timeout = 4; # seconds to wait
...
  }
  return $return_code;
}

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