"King, Jason G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Barry writes..
> >Wondering if anybody can help?
> >
> >Out company is porting more and more Unix based perl across to
> >NT 4/2000 and XP and keep running into alarms. Reading the
> >Activestate documentation these just don't seem to be
> >supported and is therefore causing us no end of grief.
> >
> >How do people get around alarms in their code
> I write less robust code. I know it sounds stupid and flippant, but the
> truth of the matter is that without being able to alarm something then
> your code is necessarily less robust. I wouldn't use Perl on Win32 for
> mission critical things where alarming was really required.
Unfortunately, some of us have to base 7x24 code on Win32, because some
hierarch has decreed that Microsoft is the answer (and never mind the
question!)
> NB: I'm not saying that there are no workarounds - just that I don't
> know any reliable ones and hence have adopted the above attitude. Good
> luck in your search.
If the alarm is to time out a spawned process, you could (in theory,
because I've never gotten around to sticking this in my own alarm-ed code):
use Win32::Process;
$po = Win32::Process::Create (...)
$po->Wait (timeout_in_milliseconds)
It looks simple - problem is it's a change in structure from the alarm
model. To time out other things, look into Win32::IPC and its offspring.
Tom Wyant
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