Bioperl: How to set a time limit?

[Joseph Ryan]

How do I timeout a slow event? 

Use the alarm function, probably in conjunction with a signal handler, as
documented Signals and chapter 6 of the Camel. You may instead use the
more flexible Sys::AlarmCall module available from CPAN. 

Taken from perlfaq8 available at http://language.perl.com/faq

--Joe

On Tue, 13 Jan 1998, Alexander Sczyrba wrote:

> 
> Is there a way in Perl to set a time limit on running shell programs?
> Let's say I'd like a script to allow a program 5 minutes to 
> execute, terminate the program and then move on.
> 
> Our WWW server terminates the connection after 5 minutes. So if a user
> submits data that will run a process for more than 5 minutes, he gets
> a 'document contains no data' back.  How can I solve this?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Alexander
> 
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