Hello,
My perl script requires to invoke external program, however this
external program sometimes take forever to complete. The external
program accessing /dev/ircomm0 and whenever the IR client was hang or
out of range, this program try to search forever making the calling
program seems to hang.
Unfortunately, perl needs to be run unatended, scheduled using cron.
My question is, how do I add a timer, so whenever external script did
not return results after x seconds just abort the program.
snippet:
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my @results = `$sms_bin $options --msg="@sms_msg"
--number="$rcpt_number" 2>&1`;
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