Re^4: Backticks and SIGALRM


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Re^4: Backticks and SIGALRM

by sgt (Deacon)

on Aug 20, 2007 at 13:34 UTC ( [id://633822]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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in reply to Re^3: Backticks and SIGALRM
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as you are using qx() (which gets the full output anyway) maybe you can simply redirect the output of your external command to a file (using the system shell and process that later

my $cmd = "$ext_cmd > $my_output"; # using unixlike shell
system($cmd) == 0 or die;          #
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(ignore if your OS is not unixlike) what does happen if you manually send SIGALRM to that external process? (wrap it in a shell if the execution time is too short).

cheers --stephan