Re: time limited STDIN

2007-01-04 Thread Saurabh Singhvi
Thanks a lot ! That does it :) On 1/4/07, Dave Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/4/07, Saurabh Singhvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I wanted to know a way of taking a time limited STDIN. Say for eg > after 3 seconds, the STDIN should stop waiting and move forward. > > How do I d

Re: time limited STDIN

2007-01-04 Thread Dave Gray
On 1/4/07, Saurabh Singhvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I wanted to know a way of taking a time limited STDIN. Say for eg after 3 seconds, the STDIN should stop waiting and move forward. How do I do this?? I was trying with unless ($child) { sleep($waittime); `echo "\n"`