Re: limiting subroutine run time

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This is not mod_perl related, but take a look at:

perldoc -f alarm



On Tue, 10 May 2005, Igor Chudov wrote:

> 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
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> - Igor
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