README

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

To install this module, use your preferred CPAN client. If this is cpanm then
run the command

  cpanm Time::Out

DOCUMENTATION

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

  perldoc Time::Out

MAINTENANCE

To maintain this module, run the following commands:

  cpanm --notest --with-configure --with-develop --no-man-pages --local-lib-contained local --installdeps .
  perl Makefile.PL
  make
  make RELEASE_TESTING=1 test  # use Test::Harness
  make RELEASE_TESTING=1 testp # use TAP::Harness
  make cover                   # coverage statistics in vim format

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2005-2008 Patrick LeBoutillier, 2023 by Sven
Willenbuecher.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.