NAME

Time::Out - Easily timeout long running operations

EXAMPLE

  use Time::Out qw( timeout );

  # time out the following code block after 5 seconds
  timeout 5 => sub {
    # do something that might take a long time...
  } ;
  if ( $@ ){
    # timeout occured...
  }

INSTALLATION

Your system must support alarm(2). To install this module manually, run the
following commands:

  perl Makefile.PL
  make
  make test
  make install

DOCUMENTATION

After the installation, you can find further documentation using the commands:

  perldoc Time::Out

MAINTENANCE

To maintain this module, run the following commands:

  perl Makefile.PL
  make PERL_CPANM_OPT="--notest --with-develop --with-recommends" installdeps 
  perl Makefile.PL
  make
  make RELEASE_TESTING=1 test
  make cover

The second command installs the module dependencies in a "local" directory
using "cpanm".

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2005-2008 Patrick LeBoutillier, 2023 Sven Willenbuecher

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as Perl itself.