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using alarm()

whats the downside

David_M

9:43 am on Aug 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Can anyone tell me what the downside to using alarm(seconds) in a perl script is?

My script is stable but I'm using it as a precaution.

Thanks.

perl_diver

1:15 pm on Aug 8, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I am not aware of any problems but maybe reading the alarm function documentation will be useful:

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