system() with timeout

[Matt Lawrence]

Chisel Wright wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:25:54AM +0100, Matt Lawrence wrote:
>   
>> I haven't had a chance to test any of this on the latest perl, 5.8.8 is  
>> the latest I've tried it with.
>>     
>
> Odd, I'm on 5.8.8 and don't seem to be seeing the same behaviour:
>
> [...]
>
> Oooh, but interestingly, if I chmod the script and run it:
>
> [...]

I've just verified that both cases leak on my system. Is it definitely 
the same version of perl in each case?

Matt