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Re: Timing out shell commands (paranoia)by Dominus (Parson) |
on May 02, 2001 at 18:31 UTC ( [id://77333]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Says bluto:
I'm trying to figure out an effective way of timing out shell commands in Perl.The technique I usually use for this is to make a very small tool called stopafter: To use stopafter, you say something like this: The command runs, but it dies automatically after 300 seconds. Now in your Perl program, use: Now read from the pipe as usual. After 10 seconds, the timer expires and you get an end-of-file condition on the pipe. Hope this helps.
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