limiting subroutine run time

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I am working on a system on algebra.com where anyone
could define a math solver for a particular kind of
problem. It could be defined either via a custom
markup language (not interesting), or as a perl
script.

These user submitted perl scripts will be executed
inside Safe.pm compartment. I hope that they will be
secure enough.

My question is, is there some way to limit execution
time of a subroutine? I would not want those scripts
to run for more than a second CPU time.

i

- Igor



		
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