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Time::Out - Easy timeouts
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  use Time::Out qw(timeout);

  # Time out the following code block after 5 seconds
  timeout 5 => sub {
    # do something that might take a long time...
  } ;
  if ($@){
    # timeout occured...
  }


INSTALLATION

Note: Your system must support alarm(2).

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install


COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2005-2008 Patrick LeBoutillier

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.