RE: indefinite hang in ./perl -I. -MTestInit ../ext/IO/t/io_multi homed.t

> > We don't need complete portability ; having this safety 
> > measure on major
> > unixes should be enough. And on Cygwin :) (I don't remember 
> > tests hanging on Windows or VMS.)
> 
> Alas they do on windows.
> 
> Im thinking that maybe Win32::Process is the solution but I 
> havent tried anything out yet.

Just a thought but [tye] (McQueen) pointed out an interesting angle to this.

In OS/2 and Win32 there is a magic variant of system() that may be useful
for this scenario:

perl -le "system(1,'perl -le \"print qq[Non blocking]; sleep 10; warn
qq[system() call];\"'); sleep(1),print for 1..10"

Apparently it was never implemented on *nix, but since *nix probably has a
reliable alarm mechanism maybe this would be a viable Win32/OS2 workaround.

Damn but its cool though. :-)

Yves