Re: Having trouble porting an application to MS-Windows

On 6/14/07, Bob McConnell <rvm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
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On the Win32 platform, this form of select is only implemented for
sockets, and alarm() is not implemented at all.
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What makes you think the alarm function is not implemented? Running
the following code with the latest version of ActiveState Perl on
Windows XP works.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

print localtime() . "\n";
eval {
local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "timeout\n" };
alarm 3;
while (1) {}
};
print $@ if $@;
print localtime() . "\n";
.

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