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killing a system process after timeout
Hi, I'm having problems with a perl program I've written to query disks on a UNIX system. The problem i'm having is around a system process that is launched against each disk in turn. Unfortunately, on some disks, this process will hang so I have built in a 5 seconds alarm to allow the program...
