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Id: 54415
Status: open
Priority: 0/
Queue: Net-Telnet
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Requestors: obilodeau [...] inverse.ca
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  Mon Feb 08 12:37:09 2010 http://bottomlesspit.org/ - Ticket created
Subject: Timeout isn't honored in a program with threads
I'm using Net::Telnet inside a threaded perl program. Because of a bug in SIGALRM handling in perl, I need to define a global signal handler for SIGALRM otherwise perl bombs when telnet times out. See http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=16807. So, if I don't set that global handler, when Net::Telnet times out, the program crashes. If I set a local signal handler it crashes too. If I set a global handler that does nothing, I can't know which thread hang so I can't recover gracefully. The thread running the Net::Telnet will eventually resume after a couple of minutes (like if I set Timeout to undef). I was wondering: Can't you use a timeout in the network system call instead of using alarm()? That would resolve my problem. Environment: perl v5.8.8 Linux 2.6.x
  Mon Dec 24 08:24:47 2012 jay [...] rgrs.com - Severity Normal changed to Wishlist
  Mon Dec 24 08:24:47 2012 jay [...] rgrs.com - Broken in 3.03 deleted
  Mon Dec 24 08:26:11 2012 jay [...] rgrs.com - Correspondence added
If I understand this correctly, it is a new feature request to use a non-blocking connect() instead of alarm() to end a Net::Telnet::open() that is over the timeout limit. The problem is non-blocking connect() varies with the OS. Some don't implement it. I do agree that this would be a good new feature for those OS's that do implement non-blocking I/O for connect(). I will try to put this in a later version of Net::Telnet. The workaround is to not use Net::Telnet::open() but rather to do the non-blocking connect() yourself and then pass the open socket handle to Net::Telnet::fhopen().
  Mon Dec 24 08:26:12 2012 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'