Perl : Kill process within 5 min

Alalush · July 28, 2008, 3:24am

From a perl script , How can I monitor a PS which I activated and kill it within 5 minutes in case it didn't complete its tasks.

era · July 28, 2008, 3:39am

Regardless of programming language, a common arrangement is to set a SIGALRM to trigger. It's not guaranteed to trigger in exactly 5 minutes (unless you have a real-time OS like QNX) but it's usually good enough.

The perlipc manual page has some examples, as has Google, of course.

Alalush · July 28, 2008, 5:31am

Thank You , era.