RE: alarm function not working

2002-11-28 Thread Paul Johnson
Juban, Nix said: > ok, i tried in UNIX and got no more errors but it doesnt expire after 30 > seconds as expected. By whom ;-) > ##!/usr/intel/bin/perl -w > use strict; > use warnings; > > my $time_to_die=0; > my $timeout=30; #in seconds > my @e=qw(| \ - /); > $SIG{ALRM} = sub { $time_to_die=1;

RE: alarm function not working

2002-11-28 Thread Juban, Nix
ok, i tried in UNIX and got no more errors but it doesnt expire after 30 seconds as expected. -Original Message-From: Timothy Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2002 3:38 PMTo: 'Juban, Nix'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'Subject: RE:

RE: alarm function not working

2002-11-27 Thread Timothy Johnson
It looks like you tried to use the alarm function on a Win32 machine.  Like your error message says, the alarm() function is not supported on your system. -Original Message-From: Juban, Nix [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 8:49 PMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECT