[plug] Killing process after time

[Tim White]

I have a perl script that takes in some numbers does some user interaction 
and then needs to run a process that is killed after a certain amount of time.
I know that there is an alarm function but I can't get that to work with a 
system call and fork doesn't appear to be what I need. exec is out of the 
question as I need to do a small amount of work after the command has finished.
I have looked at ulimit but that is CPU time which is not real time.
If any one knows of how to get the perl script to kill the process or 
ulimit to look at real time then please tell me.
Thanks
Tim

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