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Re: Waiting for Alarm

by traveler (Parson)
on Feb 16, 2008 at 18:49 UTC ( #668331=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Waiting for Alarm

You can pause a perl script waiting for an alarm with: 
use POSIX qw(pause);
$SIG(ALRM) = ...
...
alarm $seconds;
...

pause; #wait for a signal without
       #using CPU time

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Re^2: Waiting for Alarm
by n8ur (Acolyte) on Feb 16, 2008 at 19:15 UTC
    Perfect! Thanks.

    John

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