From: Eric Schwartz <emschwar@...>
Date: 2004-08-14T03:36:07+09:00
Subject: Re: timeouts with threads and SIGALRM

Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@gmail.com> writes:
> Is this more like what you need?

<snip example using trap>

> ..or do you definitely need to catch the SignalException within your main code?

I really do need to catch it within my main code.  I'm querying a
number of remote machines for test status.  Sometimes, very rarely,
that query will just go off into the weeds and stay there.  I don't
know why yet, so I want to leave that situation in place, mark that
machine as nonresponsive, and move on.  AFAIK, catching
SignalException is the only way to do that.

-=Eric
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