> -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Birthisel [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2010 9:42 AM > To: Paul Rogers > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: alarm > > One big reason why it doesn't work: THANKS $MICROSOFT. > > In the early days of NT, they decided to only permit system calls and > drivers to interrupt system calls so that a user process could no > longer > crash the system (think Windows 3.x). So it has never been possible to > implement 'alarm' unless the perl code was talking to a hardware driver > (e.g Win32::SerialPort - the driver has API calls to set the timeouts).
Well, I guess we'll have to live with it. > It appears you_know_who Señor Gates. > relented a bit with Win2K and provided a 'job > timeout' that could be setup from user code. So you want to look at the > Win32::job module on CPAN. Yep...and that's exactly what was recommended by Jan in the link sent by Joachim Thuau. Cheers! Paul --- _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
