From: Eric Schwartz <emschwar@...>
Date: 2004-08-14T06:31:52+09:00
Subject: Re: timeouts with threads and SIGALRM

Lennon Day-Reynolds <rcoder@gmail.com> writes:
> I realized that this probably should have been my first suggestion:
> how about using the standard 'timeout' module to accomplish the same
> thing?

I'll see if it works.  I'm currently surprised by the fact that
somehow the SIGALRM I'm sending to the main process isn't apparently
being received.  I'm currently building an instrumented Ruby
interpreter to validate that it's not Ruby's fault.

> require 'timeout'
>
> begin
>   timeout(TIMELIMIT) do
>     my_sometimes_too_long_method()
>   end
> rescue Timeout::Error
>   # Handle timeout here
> end

Alas, no love with this example.  my_sometimes_too_long_method() just
goes on forever.  I guess I'll just have to wait until my instrumented
interpreter finishes building.

-=Eric
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