From: "ioquatix (Samuel Williams)" <noreply@...>
Date: 2022-07-20T11:48:57+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:109262] [Ruby master Feature#18630] Introduce general `IO#timeout` and `IO#timeout=` for blocking operations.

Issue #18630 has been updated by ioquatix (Samuel Williams).


Okay, I was able to make it work:

```ruby
STDIN.timeout = 1

pp STDIN.read
```

Output:

```
/Users/samuel/Projects/ioquatix/ruby/build/../test.rb:3:in `read': Operation timed out @ io_fread - <STDIN> (Errno::ETIMEDOUT)
	from /Users/samuel/Projects/ioquatix/ruby/build/../test.rb:4:in `<main>'
```

The final step is to decide what kind of exception we should use.

----------------------------------------
Feature #18630: Introduce general `IO#timeout` and `IO#timeout=` for blocking operations.
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18630#change-98392

* Author: ioquatix (Samuel Williams)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
----------------------------------------
I would like us to consider introducing a general IO timeout for all (non-)blocking operations, specified per-IO instance. It's useful for ensuring programs don't stop responding or spend an unreasonable amount of time waiting for IO operations.

There are effectively two kinds of interfaces that we need to address:

- Those that already have a timeout argument (e.g. `wait_readable`) and we follow the existing semantics.
- Those that don't have a timeout argument or timeout semantics (e.g. `puts`, `gets`), and thus probably need to raise an exception on timeout.

We have three possible kinds of exceptions we could raise:

- `Errno::ETIMEDOUT`
- `Timeout::Error` (from `timeout.rb`)
- Introduce `IO::Timeout` or something similar.

Timeout isn't necessarily an error condition. There are different arguments for whether we should define:

```ruby
class IO::Timeout < Exception
end

# or

class IO::Timeout < StandardError
end
```

I believe the latter (`StandardError`) is more practical but I'm open to either option. I might have more specific arguments later why one is better than the other after testing in a practical system.

There is already a PR to try it out: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/5653



-- 
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/

Unsubscribe: <mailto:ruby-core-request@ruby-lang.org?subject=unsubscribe>
<http://lists.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/mailman/options/ruby-core>