Perl alarm not working when reading for a socket , perl seems to be buggy
 

I have a simple Socket Client which is waiting for a server reply if it does't received alarm should trigger and close the socket and exit. However alarm never triggers. here are my client and server.
########### My Client #######
use IO::Socket;
$socket = IO::Socket::INET->new
(
PeerAddr => 'localhost',
PeerPort => 1247,
Proto => "tcp",
Type => SOCK_STREAM
) or die "Could not create client.\n";

print $socket "STATUS\n";
&WaitForServer();

sub WaitForServer()
{

$timeout = 10;
eval {
local $SIG{ALRM} = sub { die "alarm\n" }; # NB: \n required
alarm 10;
$line=<$socket> ; #it just hangs here as sever never replies
alarm 0;
};
if ($@) {
die unless $@ eq "alarm\n"; # propagate unexpected errors
# timed out
}
else {
print " I GOT the line $line";
close $socket;
# didn't
}
}

##Here is MyServer.pl ###################33

$server = IO::Socket::INET->new
(
LocalPort => 1247,
Type => SOCK_STREAM,
Reuse => 1,
Listen => 5
) or die "Could not create server.\n";

while ($client = $server->accept()) {

while ($line = <$client>) {

print "Read this from client: $line";
# print "sending back status to cient \n";
#print $client "Iam running\n";

}

}
############# Server Ends here###################
Any solution for the above will be really helpfull ?? I'am using perl 5.10

Perl in windows Really seems to be buggy earlier i was trying the same program with fork( (see my last post ) however program hungs when doing the fork. Now I'am trying to workout with alarm now alarm is also not working???

Do you receive anything from client at the server end? Is it a firewall issue?
BTW, don't use &subname() in v5.x. That was a v4 thing. Now it basically means a ref to a sub, which is not what you want.