Signals... SIGALRM

[Milton Calnek]

Hello all.

I'm trying to write a UDP server program I would like to poll for UDP input 
and periodically interupt the waiting to check the database.  My primary 
test environment is Cygwin.

I'm having trouble with SIGALRM not being sent/received.  Specifically,
I want to read UDP packets but I don't want to be blocked waiting for 
them.  I am using IO::Socket.

I took this from the Perl Cookbook

	if( eval {
		local $SIG{ALRM} = \&poll_db;
		alarm $config{TIMEOUT};
		print STDERR "poll_udp(): Wait for input\n";
		$sock->recv($input, $config{MAXLEN}) or die "poll_udp(): recv: $!";
		alarm 0;
		1;  # return value from eval on normalcy
	} ) {

and made a few modifications to it... it's from the udpmsg program 17.4 & 17.5

I read in the FAQ that not all signals are implemented... is SIGALRM one of those?
Is there a better way to do this?

Any help is apreciated.
TIA.

 
--
Milton Calnek
milton@calnek.com

Everything should be as simple as possible - but no simpler. 
-- Albert Einstein as quoted by Peter G. Neumann in CHATS Principles 


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