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[Tim Sailer]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:42:22AM -0500, Jeffrey O. Stevison wrote:
> Is there a way to set a timeout value for a system("ls -l") call?  If  
> the ls command hangs for at least 5 secs I want to term the call and  
> have some return value that indicates the process has termed.

Not that I've found. I've been using the $dirhandle=opendir('xx');
$filename=readdir($dirhandle); method of picking out files.

Tim

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