hOURS am Donnerstag, 7. Dezember 2006 06:51: > Thanks for trying, but this right here is the heart of the matter. > Id be using alarm to time a certain thing. It seems to me, any > explanation of how to do that, be it plain English or sample code has to > incorporate that thing. My program in a nutshell goes: > Blah blah blah the beginning part > require someprogramthatmayhaveaninfiniteloop.pl > Blah blah blah the ending part > Note thats not the literal code. :) > As it stands if someprogramthatmayhaveaninfiniteloop.pl does go on > forever I will never get to the ending part. How would one add alarm to > this such that the ending part gets executed regardless? Fred Kittelmann > > > Where is the thing being timed? I understand something is being > > given 5 seconds, but what?
Hello Fred I doubt that I understand what you exactly want (get your code working? Know how alarm works in detail?). Maybe somebody else does. If not, could you provide a trimmed down version of your program (the main program and the required someprogramthatmayhaveaninfiniteloop.pl) that can be run and modified. Dani -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
