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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Perl script timer on program launch Post 302543633 by vas28r13 on Monday 1st of August 2011 01:37:51 PM
Old 08-01-2011
Perl script timer on program launch
So I am attempting to get a short but complex perl script to be able to time out an application that I will launch from a command line. The terminal I use is MKS C SHELL and I am having trouble doing the a job spawn that will launch the application and keep time on it.

I know you could do this in pearl doing something like
Code:
my $job = Win32::Job->new;
        $job->spawn(something,something,something);
        $job->run(time);

Could someone help me understand how this works, I believe I am having most trouble witht the spawn part as I do not exactly understand what are the arguments.

Thank you
 

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spawn.h

spawn.h(3HEAD)							      Headers							    spawn.h(3HEAD)

NAME

       spawn.h, spawn - spawn

SYNOPSIS

       #include <spawn.h>

DESCRIPTION

       The <spawn.h> header defines the posix_spawnattr_t and posix_spawn_file_actions_t types used in performing spawn operations.

       The <spawn.h> header defines the flags that can be set in a posix_spawnattr_t object using the posix_spawnattr_setflags() function:

	 POSIX_SPAWN_RESETIDS
	 POSIX_SPAWN_SETPGROUP
	 POSIX_SPAWN_SETSCHEDPARAM
	 POSIX_SPAWN_SETSCHEDULER
	 POSIX_SPAWN_SETSIGDEF
	 POSIX_SPAWN_SETSIGMASK

       Inclusion of the <spawn.h> header can make visible symbols defined in the <sched.h>, <signal.h>, and <sys/types.h> headers.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Standard			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       sched.h(3HEAD), semaphore.h(3HEAD), signal.h(3HEAD), types.h(3HEAD), attributes(5), standards(5)

SunOS 5.11							    10 Sep 2004 						    spawn.h(3HEAD)
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