timing out a system call

2003-08-14 Thread Niall Flinn
Hi folks, I'm writing my first actual useful perl scripts and I've run into the following problem - I'm using the "system" function to run a command line process (a 3d renderer, as it happens) from within my script. This works fine, except that sometimes the process hangs and leaves my perl

Re: timing out a system call

2003-08-14 Thread denis
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Niall Flinn wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm writing my first actual useful perl scripts and I've run into the following > problem - I'm using the "system" function to run a command line process (a 3d > renderer, as it happens) from within my script. This works fine, except t

Re: timing out a system call

2003-08-14 Thread denis
Forgot to mention that most of the "guts" for this was given to me by some of the kind folks on this mailing list.. Just wanted to give credit where credit was due.. Denis On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Niall Flinn wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > I'm