Re: [MacPerl] Timeout/Alarms

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 14.02 -0400 1998.09.08, Strider wrote:
>	I'm writing a port scanner (for white hat use, of course =) and
>I've run into a bit of a snag. There's a server on our net that's lagged-
>it takes so long to connect to each port (or to be denied the connection)
>that I'm going to have to skip the server on my passes altogether, unless I
>can somehow set a timeout for my connect()'s. I had a thought that (at
>least in the UNIX world) such a thing might be accomplished with an alarm
>or system call. How would I do it on a mac?

$SIG{ALRM} works fine.  If you use IO::Socket, you can set a Timeout
parameter (which is, I believe, implemented using alarm() and $SIG{ALRM}).

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